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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.
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The Foster G. McGaw Prize recognizes hospitals that have distinguished themselves through efforts to improve the health and well-being of everyone in their communities.
Organization: Palliative Medicine, Bon Secours Richmond Health System, Richmond, Virginia. Innovation highlights were its interdisciplinary team with strong psycho-social component, participation in alternative payment model and embedded navigators in primary care.
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.
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The AHA Equity of Care award is named in honor of Carolyn Boone Lewis, the first African American and first hospital trustee to chair the AHA board, who was a tireless advocate for equity of care.
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.