Award
The Circle of Life Award: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care shines a bright light on programs and organizations that are providing exceptional quality, equitable, safe and patient- and family-centered care.
A call for nominations is issued in November to the Surgeons General of the Armed Forces (Air Force, Army, Navy and Coast Guard), the Undersecretary for Health at the Veterans Administration, the Defense Health Agency, and the Director of the Indian Health Service.
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…
Honorees
Videos and interviews can be seen on AHA’s YouTube channel.
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.
By establishing strict ethical guidelines for selling to hospitals and insisting on a high level of quality and service, Foster G. McGaw shaped the hospital supply industry and helped create the standards under which it operates today. In 1985, American Hospital Supply Corporation merged with…
2022 Rural Hospital Leadership Award Winner and Finalists.
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.
An archive of winners and finalists of the American Hospital Association Foster G. McGaw award from 1986 to 2014.
The Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award from the AHA Rural Health Services honors the leadership team who have guided their hospital and community through transformational change on the road to health care innovation. The team will have displayed outstanding leadership and responsiveness to the…