Award
Each year, the American Hospital Association honors as many as five programs led by AHA-member hospitals as “bright stars of the health care field.” Winners are recognized for their work to improve community health status in collaboration with other community stakeholders.
The AHA Dick Davidson NOVA Award recognizes outstanding collaboration by hospitals and health systems for healthier communities. The award honors American Hospital Association members who: Improve community health status whether through health care, economic or social initiatives; and are…
The Circle of Life Awards: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care are presented annually to recognize outstanding and innovative initiatives and programs. In particular, the Circle of Life Awards seek to honor programs that can be models for other health care organizations…
The $75,000 Quest for Quality Prize is presented annually to recognize health care leadership and innovation in providing and improving quality and advancing health in communities. Quest for Quality Prize Committee Members select the honorees
Nominations form for the 2019 AHA Leadership Awards.
Distinguished Service Award
Board of Trustees Award
Award of Honor
Honorary Life Membership
Justin Ford Kimball Innovators Award
The American Hospital Association Quest for Quality Prize is presented annually to honor health care leadership and innovation in achieving quality health care and advancing health in communities. The 2018 award recognizes hospitals and health care systems that have been successful in aligning with…
Story on the 2018 AHA NOVA Award winners
Organization: Bluegrass Care Navigators, Lexington, Kentucky. Organization: Bluegrass Care Navigators, Lexington, Kentucky. Innovation highlights were its strong, diverse partnerships; strategic, thoughtful innovations; and care in the gaps.
Recent Achievements:
Organization: Louisiana State Penitentiary Hospice Program, Angola, LA. Angola is widely viewed as one of the toughest prisons in the US—most inmates are serving life-time sentences. Average age of those in the prison is 42; average age of death is 52. The hospice’s…
Organization: Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY. The program was cited for creation of a Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care equal to other medical departments; integration of a certified hospice program as a resource…