NAHQ Recognition & Awards

Claire Glover Distinguished Member Award
Luc R. Pelletier Healthcare Quality Award
NAHQ Award for Association Excellence
Rising Quality Star Award
JHQ Golden Pen Awards
NAHQ Fellowship Program
HQF Grants

Each year NAHQ presents a number of awards which strive to recognize outstanding achievements in the profession of healthcare quality. These awards are presented during the general session at the NAHQ annual conference. The Call for Award Nominations appears in the spring issue of the NAHQ E-News with the submission deadlines generally being in the late spring and summer.

View photos of the award winners from the 34th Annual Educational Conference.

Claire Glover Distinguished Member Award for Contributions to the Healthcare Quality Profession

Claire Glover was an avid supporter and spokesperson for the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ). She supported the growth of the young NAHQ organization and promotion of quality in healthcare. She was instrumental in mentoring and encouraging others to become leaders in NAHQ. When the NAHQ board approved an award to recognize an outstanding member, the award was named after Claire, who epitomized the characteristics of enthusiasm, passion, dedication and commitment to the organization.

The Claire Glover Distinguished Member Award recognizes a dynamic and passionate member who has made significant contributions to the healthcare quality profession, whether to national and state associations or through publication activities and education leadership. This person has been a NAHQ member for at least 6 years and has demonstrated commitment, dedication, passion, and enthusiasm for NAHQ and the quality profession.

To view more information and apply for this award, please click here.
Application Deadline: July 6, 2009

2009 Claire Glover Distinguished Member Award Winner: Linda Liewer, BSN MPH CPHQ

Luc R. Pelletier Healthcare Quality Award

Luc R. Pelletier served as editor-in-chief for the Journal for Healthcare Quality from 1998–2007. During his tenure, the journal won many awards, increased the number of columns and special issues devoted to healthcare quality professionals and achieved unprecedented growth. Mr. Pelletier has had a distinguished career as an advanced psychiatric-mental health nurse, consistently advocated for excellence, and shared his expertise through activity in professional organizations, teaching, writing, and publishing. 

The recipient has developed a performance improvement project, program, or initiative that has improved organizational performance and has had a direct effect on the quality of healthcare for a defined group of patients or population. Statements regarding desired outcomes of the performance improvement project must be supported with measurable information, where possible.

For more information, please click here.

To apply for this award, please click here.
Application Deadline: July 6, 2009

2009 Luc R. Pelletier Healthcare Quality Award Winner: Claire M. Davis, RN CPHQ FNAHQ

Rising Quality Star Award

The National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) awards the Rising Quality Star Award to a dynamic NAHQ member who has shown significant participation in the organization and profession to promote healthcare quality.

To view more information and apply for this award, please click here.
Application Deadline: June 24, 2009

2009 Rising Quality Star Award Winner: Stephanie Iorio, BSN RN CPHQ CPC

NAHQ Award for Association Excellence

The NAHQ Award for Association Excellence recognizes the state healthcare quality association that provides exceptional membership services and benefits. The award is intended to enhance the goals and objectives of NAHQ by promoting quality educational offerings and providing information to healthcare quality professionals through the affiliated organizations. Each state association application is assessed on the states' achievement of its established goals and objectives, the quality of its newsletter, the quality of its educational programs, and the state membership's involvement in NAHQ.

To view more information and apply for this award, please click here.
Application Deadline: June 24, 2009 

2008 Winners:

NAHQ State Association Subcategory Award

The NAHQ State Association Subcategory Awards have been created in addition to the Award for Association Excellence to allow flexibility in recognizing states that excel in one of the subcategories of the larger award. States may compete for 4 separate subcategory awards. These awards will give states the opportunity to participate in the awards process and show their strengths in a specific area when they perhaps cannot compete for the larger award for overall excellence.

Click here to apply for the Newsletter/Web Site Award.
Click here to apply for the Educational Program Award.
Click here to apply for the Support of CPHQ Certification Award.
Click here to apply for the Support of National Healthcare Quality Week.

Application Deadline: June 24, 2009 

2008 Winners:

Newsletter/Web Site: Arizona Association for Healthcare Quality
Educational Program: Delaware Association for Healthcare Quality

JHQ Golden Pen Awards

The JHQ Golden Pen Awards recognize NAHQ members who have demonstrated excellence in writing for the Journal for Healthcare Quality. The purposes of the awards are to recruit new members for NAHQ, increase the rate of submission of manuscripts to the journal, increase the visibility and exposure of the journal in the healthcare quality profession, and provide special recognition for outstanding contributions to the journal.

For eligibility criteria, selection criteria and award procedures, click here.

2008 Golden Pen Award Recipient:
"Quartile Dashboards: Translating Large Data Sets into Performance Improvement Priorities"
Diane Storer Brown

2008 Golden Pen Award for New Authors Recipient:
"Providing Reliable Care for Patients with Emergent Acute Myocardial Infarction"
Susan Hendrickson

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