Awards & Fellowships
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership will present its 2018 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award to Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO of Carilion Clinic and 2018 AHA chair.
Hospitals and health systems are invited to apply for the 2019 AHA Quest for Quality Prize, which recognizes extraordinary health care leadership and innovation in improving quality and advancing health in communities.
The American Society for Healthcare Engineering will present its 2018 Energy Champion Award to Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center in San Diego and Energy to Care Awards to 68 hospitals for slashing energy use.
Lee Sacks, M.D., chief medical officer for Advocate Aurora Health, will receive the Health Research & Educational Trust's 2018 TRUST Award July 26 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.
Zangerle is motivated to tell hospitals’ stories after becoming a part of the AHA board.
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…
Organization: Children’s Program of San Diego Hospice and Children’s Hospital and Health Center (now called Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center), San Diego, CA. The collaboration between the hospice and the children’s hospital included…
Organization: Hospice & Palliative CareCenter, Winston-Salem, NC. Innovation highlights noted were the Community Partnership for End of Life Care (nearly 250 community organizations and individuals), medical school curriculum in hospice and palliative care, and a comprehensive…