Awards & Fellowships
Organization: High Point Regional Health System, High Point, NC. The system’s innovative highlights included integration of patient-centered care and palliative care throughout, strong team model for patient care, and leadership by chaplains.
Organization: Continuum Hospice Care, New York, NY. Innovations highlights were the hospice’s Open Access focus on clinical indicators rather than prognosis, reliance on evidence-based medicine, and elimination of cost considerations and complexity as factors in hospice eligibility.
Organization: Covenant Hospice, Pensacola, FL. The hospice’s innovations include its culture of leadership throughout the organization, strong educational outreach, and evidence-based tools and protocols.
Organization: Pain and Palliative Care Program, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. Innovation highlights noted were a three-part focus on pain management/palliative care, end-of-life care, and integrative medicine; emphasis on “follow the kid;” and…
Organization: Four Seasons, Flat Rock, NC. Innovations cited were leading-edge palliative care delivery in rural setting, collaborative research with university, and palliative care outreach.
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Organization: The Department of Veterans Affairs VA New York/New Jersey Healthcare Network, Brooklyn, NY.
Innovation highlights were a strong staff education and training program, expansion of palliative care services in intensive care units, community outreach, and data collection to drive…
Organization: The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care, Cheektowaga, NY. Innovation highlights were its broad range of service, strategic approach to understanding and meeting community needs and collaboration across the health care continuum.
The Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) is the 2018 recipient of the Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership for its work to improve health care quality, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced today.
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership is accepting nominations through June 8 for the 2018 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award.
Organizations and groups that provide palliative or end-of-life care may apply through Aug. 13 for the 2019 Circle of Life Awards, which honor outstanding and innovative palliative and end-of-life care programs.