ASHRM Innovation Award
The ASHRM Innovation Award recognizes organizational excellence in patient safety and celebrates the efforts of risk management professionals in promoting safety across the health care enterprise.
Eligibility
- Open to organizations that have demonstrated innovative improvements in patient safety.
- All ASHRM members may submit a nomination on behalf of their organization.
- Self-nominations are allowed.
Criteria
- Program can be replicated or adapted by others.
- Clear relevance and prioritization of the safety issue.
- Supported by research or literature review.
- Original implementation strategies.
- Significant results achieved.
- Success described as a team achievement.
What Do the Recipients Get?
- Engraved prestigious crystal award.
- Receives up to two complimentary registrations to ASHRM's annual conference during which the award is received.
- Will be honored during the ASHRM in-person annual conference.
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Past Recipients
2024: Advent Health - "Reduce Your Patient Fall Rates: Leveraging a ‘Bootcamp’ Approach to Create a Culture Change"
2023: North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) - "Anesthesia Risk Alert (ARA) Program"
2022: Texas Health Resources - "Turn your Attention to Patient Safety"
2021: Atrium Health - "Product Safety Response Teams – An Innovative Program to Improve Patient Safety and Prevent Harm from Supply Chain Disruptions"
2020: Johns Hopkins Medicine - "The Johns Hopkins Medicine Venous Thromboembolism Collaborative"
2019: Lake Health - "Improving Care of the Patient with Post-Operative Respiratory Failure"
2018: Adventist Health System - "Improving Patient Safety by Incorporating a Human Factors Engineering Approach to the Root Cause Analysis Process Following Serious Safety Events"
2017: Abington Hospital, Jefferson Health - "Create a Safe Night"
2016: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, GBMC Healthcare, Inc. - "Using Lean Daily Management (LDM) Improves Safety and Reduces Harm"