Rural Hospital Leadership Award

Rural Hospital Leadership AwardThe Rural Hospital Leadership Award recognizes small or rural hospital chief executives and administrators who have achieved improvements in local health delivery and health status through their leadership and direction. The Award is designed to provide professional development and educational opportunities to outstanding small or rural hospital chief executives and includes a $1,500 stipend to offset the cost of attending an AHA educational program.

Applications must be submitted by August 30, 2019. Award recipient and finalists are notified in November.

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Read about how award winner Ronald (“Ronnie”) Sloan, president of The Outer Banks Hospital in Nags Head, N.C. is improving population health in his community.

2019 Award Application

Background

Past Winners of the Award

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