AHA NOVA Award

AHA NOVA Awards® honor effective, collaborative programs focused on improving community health status.

2010 applications will be available here in August 2009.

  ACHI is an educational affiliate of the AHA NOVA Award.

2009 AHA NOVA Award Recipients

Story on the 2009 AHA NOVA Award Winners

• Student Success Jobs Program: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 
• Really Awesome Health (RAH) and Wholesome Routines: Duke Raleigh Hospital, Raleigh, NC
• Taos First Steps Program: Holy Cross Hospital, Taos, NM
• Project BRIEF: Jacobi Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital, Bronx, NY
• Lighten Up 4 Life: Mission Health System, Asheville, NC
  

2009 AHA NOVA Award Finalists

• Vulnerable Patient Network: Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, TX
• Improving Heart Failure Care with Care Management Model: Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY 
• Bucyrus Community Hospital's Tobacco Treatment Program: Bucyrus Community Hospital, Bucyrus, OH
• New Vitality: A Health & Wellness program for people 50 and older: Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Intermountain Healthcare Community Prenatal Program: Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT
• Latina Perinatal Outreach Project: McLeod Medical Center Dillon, Dillon, SC
• Taylor Youth Prevention Initiative: Oakwood Healthcare System, Dearborn, MI
• Owensboro-Daviess County School Health Partnership: Owensboro Medical Health System, Owensboro, KY
• Freshman Focus: Palmetto Health, Columbia, SC
• Save a Life/Bluetooth Project: St. Peter's Hospital and Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY and Ellis Hospital, Schenectady, NY
• Steps to Success-Houma at Terrebonne General Medical Center: Terrebonne General Medical Center, Houma, LA
• Healthy Home: University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
  

2008 AHA NOVA Award Recipients 

Story on the 2008 AHA NOVA Award Winners

• Every Child Succeeds:  Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
• Partnership for Community Health:  California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
• Nutrition Center of Maine:  Saint Mary’s Health System, Lewiston, ME
• ENERGIZE!:  WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Raleigh, NC
• Memorial Hermann Health Centers for Schools:  Memorial Hermann, Houston, TX

2007 AHA NOVA Award Recipients

Story on the 2007 AHA NOVA Award Winners
 

• Medical-Legal Partnership for Children: Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
• NOW (Nutritional Options for Wellness) Program: Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI
• Richland Care: Palmetto Health, Columbia, SC
• Trauma Nurses Talk Tough: Legacy Health System, Portland, OR
• UMass Memorial Medical Center Healthy Youth Development Initiative: UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, MA
• Youth Health Partnership-Patee Market Youth Dental Clinic: Heartland Health, St. Joseph, MO 

2006 AHA NOVA Award Recipients

Story on the 2006 AHA NOVA Award Winners

• Healthy Learners: Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals, Columbia, SC; Allendale County Hospital, Fairfax, SC; McLeod Medical Center, Dillon, SC; and Self Regional Healthcare, Greenwood, SC
• Primary Care Access Network (PCAN): Health Central, Ocoee, FL; Florida Hospital, Winter Park, FL; and Orlando Regional Healthcare, Orlando, FL
• ProHealth Care Community Health Outreach Initiative: ProHealth Care, Waukesha, WI
• Saint Joseph Mobile Health Services: Saint Joseph Healthcare Inc., Lexington, KY
• Yonkers Childhood Health Initiative: St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers, NY

2005 AHA NOVA Award Recipients

Story on the 2005 AHA NOVA Award Winners

• Children's Health Initiative: McKay-Dee Hospital Center, Ogden, UT
• Palmetto Health's Vision Health Initiative: Palmetto Health, Columbia, SC
• Project Dulce, Whittier Institute for Diabetes: Scripps Health, San Diego, CA
• Toledo/Lucas County CareNet: Mercy Health Partners, ProMedica Health System, and Medical University of Ohio, all of Toledo, OH, and St. Luke's Hospital, Maumee, OH
• Volunteer Health Advisor Program: Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA

See 1994-2004 AHA NOVA Award Recipients