/ en Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:08:27 -0500 Wed, 23 Apr 25 15:18:57 -0500 /news/headline/2025-04-23-application-window-closes-may-6-2026-aha-foster-g-mcgaw-prize <p>The deadline for health delivery organizations to apply for the AHA’s 2026 Foster G. McGaw Prize is 1 p.m. ET May 6. The award honors organizations that demonstrate alignment between community health needs and co-designed programs. The honorees forge effective collaborations with a broad range of community organizations to improve access to care and address societal factors influencing health. The winning prize is $100,000 while finalists will be awarded $10,000. <a href="/fostermcgaw"><strong>LEARN MOR</strong></a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:18:57 -0500 Recognition and Awards /news/headline/2025-04-01-apply-now-2026-aha-foster-g-mcgaw-prize <p>Health delivery organizations have until 1 p.m. ET May 6 to apply for the AHA’s 2026 Foster G. McGaw Prize, honoring organizations that demonstrate alignment between community health needs and co-designed programs. The honorees forge effective collaborations with a broad range of community organizations to improve access to care and address societal factors influencing health. The winning prize is $100,000 while finalists will be awarded $10,000. <a href="/fostermcgaw" target="_blank"><strong>LEARN MORE</strong></a></p> Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:41:44 -0500 Recognition and Awards /news/headline/2025-03-20-ihf-accepting-nominations-2025-awards <p>The International Hospital Federation is accepting <a href="https://submissions.ihf-fih.org/" target="_blank">nominations</a> through May 2 for its 2025 <a href="https://ihf-fih.org/what-we-do/ihf-awards/" target="_blank">awards</a> honoring excellence in hospitals and health care organizations globally. The awards will be presented Nov. 12 during IHF’s World Hospital Congress in Geneva, Switzerland. <br> </p> Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:43:47 -0500 Recognition and Awards /award/2025-03-17-2024-rural-hospital-leadership-team-award-winner-and-finalists <div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-8"><img data-entity-uuid="463b5f37-127f-4fdf-90bb-0681d0fc6ec4" data-entity-type="file" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/Rural-Hospital-Leadership-Award-Winner-Columbia-Memorial-900x695.jpg" width="900" height="675" alt="2024 Rural Hospital Leadership Award Winner Columbia Memorial Hospital."><h2>Winner: Columbia Memorial Hospital, Astoria, Ore.</h2><p>Columbia Memorial Hospital (CMH) provides a broad range of specialty services to a population of more than 41,000, in addition to providing care for some of the over 125,000 tourists visiting Oregon’s North Coast annually. In 2010, CMH established a clinical collaboration with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to enhance access to specialty care within the community. In 2017, the CMH-OHSU Knight Cancer Collaborative, a state-of-the-art cancer treatment center, opened in Astoria, saving local patients more than 80,000 miles and 1,600 hours of drive time each year. CMH recently broke ground on a 180,000-square-foot hospital expansion, which will expand hospital service lines, attract new providers and provide the latest technology to address community health needs. The new facility is being constructed with disaster resiliency in mind, including a Tsunami Vertical Evacuation Refuge Structure to offer a safe evacuation space to community members and caregivers, as well as a rooftop helipad and emergency operations center.</p><h2>Finalists</h2><h3>Atrium Health Lincoln, Lincolnton, N.C.</h3><p>Atrium Health Lincoln’s (AHL) innovative use of telemedicine brings across-the-spectrum care to underserved communities through virtual health programs. The school-based virtual therapy program serves over 2,000 students and facilitated approximately 18,000 therapy visits in 2023, resulting in over 30% improvement in depressive and anxiety symptoms among participants. Leveraging a virtual platform for care creates increased accessibility resulting in a 10% increase in family therapy engagement. The program has since expanded beyond Lincoln County and now operates in 11 counties and 204 schools, making it the largest school-based virtual therapy program in the Southeast.</p><h3>Schneck Medical Center, Seymour, Ind.</h3><p>Schneck Medical Center (SMC) is the only hospital facility in rural Jackson County, which has a high rate of chronic conditions and poverty, with 31% of the adult population living below 200% of the federal poverty level. To address these factors, SMC is the backbone organization for the Healthy Jackson County coalition, highlighting the impact of collaboration in the reduction of chronic disease. SMC also spearheads and supports programs fighting food insecurity; addressing the specific needs of the area’s Latino population; and bringing care to those with mental health and substance use disorders.</p><h3>Summit Pacific Medical Center, Elma, Wash.</h3><p>Summit Pacific Medical Center (SPMC) is a critical access hospital serving Grays Harbor County and has a bold vision of building the healthiest community in the country. SPMC is being recognized for its innovative approach to addressing the region’s significant health challenges, including high rates of chronic disease, economic hardship and poor health factors. Through its Low Barrier Behavioral and Primary Care Clinic, SPMC provides integrated behavioral health, medication-assisted treatment and walk-in services to underserved populations facing barriers to care. Additionally, the hospital’s newly accredited Rural Family Medicine Residency Program has added more than 3,000 patient visits each year.</p><p>This year’s honorees were recognized at the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, February 23-26, 2025, in San Antonio.</p><p>Please join our mailing list to be notified when next year’s application becomes available.</p></div><div class="col-md-4"><div class="panel module-typeC"><div class="panel-heading"><p><a href="/about/awards/rural-hospital-leadership-award">About the 2025 Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award</a></p><p><a href="/2006-01-06-rural-hospital-leadership-award-winners">Past Winners of the Award</a></p></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:45:16 -0500 Recognition and Awards /news/headline/2025-03-14-application-window-opens-2026-aha-foster-g-mcgaw-prize <p>Health delivery organizations are encouraged to apply by 1 p.m. ET May 6 for the AHA’s 2026 Foster G. McGaw Prize, honoring organizations that demonstrate alignment between community health needs and co-designed programs. Honorees forge effective collaborations with a broad range of community organizations to improve access to care and address societal factors influencing health. The winning prize is $100,000 and finalists will be awarded $10,000. <a href="/fostermcgaw">LEARN MORE</a><br> </p> Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:12:26 -0500 Recognition and Awards /news/headline/2025-02-24-columbia-memorial-hospital-honored-collaborative-leadership-and-transformational-change-rural-oregon <p>AHA Board of Trustees Chair Tina Freese Decker Feb. 24 presented the <a href="/press-releases/2025-02-18-aha-names-2025-rural-hospital-leadership-team-award-winner-and-finalists">2024 Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award</a> to the team from Columbia Memorial Hospital, a critical access hospital in Astoria, Ore. The award recognizes rural hospital leaders who guide their hospital and community through change and innovation. Recognized as finalists were the teams at Atrium Health Lincoln in Lincoln, N.C.; Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Ind.; and Summit Pacific Medical Center in Elma, Wash. </p> Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:04:12 -0600 Recognition and Awards /news/headline/2024-12-11-pollack-receives-ashp-award-honor <p>AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack this week received the <a href="https://www.ashp.org/about-ashp/awards/board-of-directors-awards/ashp-award-of-honor">ASHP Award of Honor</a>, which recognizes individuals outside the pharmacy discipline who have made extraordinary national or worldwide contributions to the health field. ASHP is the largest association of pharmacy professionals in the United States, representing 60,000 pharmacists, student pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in all patient care settings, including hospitals, ambulatory clinics and health-system community pharmacies.<br><br>ASHP said that Pollack is a “distinguished national leader and valuable ASHP collaborator who exemplifies effective advocacy and leadership on behalf of our nation’s hospitals, the patients and communities they serve, and the healthcare professionals those organizations support. His foresight, influence, and wisdom have been instrumental in guiding efforts to improve quality and patient safety, eliminate disparities in care, and promote diversity in healthcare.” The past three recipients of the award were Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., who serves as the U.S. Surgeon General, Scott Gottlieb, M.D., former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and Anthony Fauci, M.D., former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. <br><br>The AHA has worked with ASHP on a number of efforts. These include supply chain issues — most recently the Baxter IV solutions shortage — as well as protecting the 340B Drug Pricing Program from harmful changes and rejecting so-called site-neutral payment cuts that could reduce access to care and jeopardize patient safety.</p> Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:03:39 -0600 Recognition and Awards /news/headline/2024-10-15-deadline-extended-apply-nov-7-next-years-equity-care-awards <p>The AHA's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity has extended until Nov. 7 the deadline to apply for the 2025 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Awards, which recognize the efforts of member hospitals and health systems in advancing health equity, diversity and inclusion across three categories: Transforming, Emerging and Small/Rural. <a href="https://ifdhe.aha.org/equity-of-care-award"><strong>LEARN MORE</strong></a></p> Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:03:17 -0500 Recognition and Awards /news/headline/2024-10-01-application-deadline-extended-oct-15-2025-equity-care-awards <p>The AHA's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity has extended until Oct. 15 the deadline to apply for the 2025 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Awards, which recognize the efforts of member hospitals and health systems in advancing health equity, diversity and inclusion across three categories. <a href="https://ifdhe.aha.org/equity-of-care-award">LEARN MORE</a> </p> Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:24:37 -0500 Recognition and Awards /news/headline/2024-09-30-case-study-look-equity-care-award-winner-anmeds-community-engagement-strategies <p>AnMed’s dedication to implementing language services and community engagement strategies to eliminate health care disparities and improve patient quality outcomes led to the organization earning the 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award in the Small/Rural Hospital Excellence category. As a pioneer in South Carolina, AnMed was among the first health systems to dedicate full-time resources to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. <a href="/2024-equity-care-awards-case-study-anmed"><strong>READ MORE</strong></a></p> Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:07:07 -0500 Recognition and Awards