Award
The Association may grant the Distinguished Service Award to recognize significant lifetime contributions and service to health care institutions and associations.
Organization: Care Dimensions, Danvers, Massachusetts. Innovation highlights were its palliative and end-of-life care embedded in a larger system of care, broad range of services, approaches tailored to the partner organization needs and outreach to underserved groups.
Organization: Baylor Health Care System Supportive and Palliative Care Services, Dallas, TX. Innovation highlights were its ambulatory palliative care, supportive care focus, and system cultural transformation.
Organization: The Denver Hospice, Denver, CO. Innovation highlights were its strategic approach to the role of palliative care in health delivery, complex care management for the dual eligible, and strong partnerships in the community for care delivery, research and education.
Recent Achievements…
Organization: Haslinger Family Pediatric Palliative Care Center at Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH
Innovative highlights recognized were its expressive therapy center, focus on research and education and collaboration with other hospitals, hospices and medical school.
Information on how to apply for the 2018 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership.
This is a list of past winners of the American Hospital Association Rural Hospital Leadership Award and the AHA Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award.