Award
Sample post-award social messages/newsletter blurbs announcing the 2026 AHA Circle of Life Award winners.
2026 Quest for Quality Prize Digital Toolkit with sample post-award social messages and newsletter blurbs and additional resources.
Photo Galleries of the 2026 Foster G. McGaw Prize Winner and Finalists, including the winner Sky Lakes Medical Center.
The Foster G. McGaw Prize honors organizations that demonstrate a strategic approach to community health and health equity, improve access to care for historically marginalized communities and address societal factors that influence health.
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 application period for the 2026 Circle of Life Award is now closed.
The AHA’s new award, the Carolyn Boone Lewis Award for Improving Health Outcomes, will recognize excellence in applying data-informed strategies to effectively improve health outcomes for all.
The Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award from the AHA Rural Health Services honors the leadership team who has guided their hospital and community through transformational change on the road to health care reform innovation.
The new AHA Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award seeks to recognize and share the accomplishments of rural hospitals that exemplify responsiveness, innovation and excellence in developing, implementing and/or sustaining programs and services.
In 1986, the Foster G. McGaw Prize was created to recognize hospitals that have distinguished themselves through efforts to improve the health and well-being of everyone in their communities.