Alex Enz, RN, receives coveted Daisy Award at Orlando Health South Lake Hospital

Clermont, FL (Aug. 7, 2024) – Orlando Health South Lake Hospital recently recognized Alex Enz, RN, with the Daisy Award.

As an advanced care nurse in the hospital’s intensive care unit, Alex sees patients with severe conditions who require round-the- clock care. Alex was nominated by a patient who cited his "pleasant bearing and genuine concern." The patient said Alex provided excellent care with gentleness, kindness and empathy as well as paid special attention to the simple things to help them adjust. When the patient was transferred to another unit, Alex went over just to say hello.

“Every day, Alex brings extraordinary compassion to his patients and displays an unwavering dedication to the highest level of care and a desire for genuine connection,” said Lisa Bishop, director of nursing operations. “We are thrilled for him to receive this richly deserved recognition.”

The Daisy Award was established in 1999 by the Daisy Foundation, an organization also founded that year to honor compassionate nurses, thereby reinforcing the importance of compassion in healthcare and shining a light on what is right with nursing. The award recognizes nurses for six specific qualities: 1) passion for nursing or the care provided, 2) empathy, 3) trust/teamwork of patient, family and peers, 4) admirable attributes, 5) love for patients and the nursing profession and 6) selflessness.

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization with $9.6 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico.

Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of one of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care units, one of the only systems in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows.

The 3,487-bed system includes 17 hospitals, 10 free-standing emergency rooms and nine Hospital Care at Home programs. An additional four hospitals and six free-standing emergency rooms are coming soon. The system also includes 10 specialty institutes, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 375 outpatient facilities that include physician clinics, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with CareSpot Urgent Care. More than 4,950 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 29,000 team members and more than 1,500 physicians.

In FY 23, Orlando Health cared for 197,000 inpatients and 6.6 million outpatients.  The healthcare system provided nearly $1.3 billion in total impact to the communities it serves in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 22, the most recent period for which this information is available.

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