Awards & Fellowships

2026 Quest for Quality Prize Digital Toolkit with sample post-award social messages and newsletter blurbs and additional resources.
The AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship focuses on developing leaders and empowering them to bring about real and lasting change in the hospitals and health systems they serve, as well as in our field overall.
The AHA’s Next Generation Leaders Fellowship today announced its 46 fellows for the class of 2027, who will each work with mentors addressing a specific challenge to their hospital or health system. The program focuses on empowering leaders to create impactful and lasting change…
The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Next Generation Leaders Fellowship, focused on empowering leaders to bring about real and lasting change in health care, announced its latest class of fellows consisting of 46 individuals, including 12 Age-Friendly Fellows supported by The John A. Hartford…
The AHA Quest for Quality Prize seeks to increase understanding of the value of organizational focus and commitment to achieving quality health care and advancing health in communities. Hospitals and systems are urged to consider participation in the awards process both as a recognition and an…
The Circle of Life Award recognizes excellence in palliative and end-of-life care.
The AHA announced July 8 that Erie County Medical Center of Buffalo, N.Y., and the Geriatrics and Extended Care Hospice and Palliative Medicine Team of Orlando VA Health Care System in Orlando, Fla., are winners of the 2026 AHA Circle of Life Award for their efforts in palliative and end-of-life…
Sky Lakes Medical Center, a 176-bed standalone community hospital in Klamath Falls, Ore., is the 2026 winner of the AHA’s Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service.
Applications for the 2027 AHA Circle of Life Award are due by 1 p.m. ET on July 15.
The Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau has announced grant opportunities available supporting maternal and child health initiatives.