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New Guide Features Award-Winning Programs at Essential Hospitals

August 8, 2024
Staff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON — America’s Essential Hospitals today released Excellence and Innovation in Care: The 2024 Gage Awards, an illustrated guide highlighting a dozen essential hospital programs recognized for achievements in quality improvement and population health.

The programs focus on various issues, from behavioral health and obstetrics to HIV care and homelessness. At the association’s June annual conference, VITAL2024, four of the programs received prestigious Gage Awards as winners or honorable mentions. The awards are named for association founder Larry Gage.

“Our hospitals work tirelessly to forge new and innovative paths to care, and these programs reflect that,” says Kalpana Ramiah, DrPH, MBA, MSc, vice president of innovation and director of Essential Hospitals Institute, the research, education, and leadership development arm of America’s Essential Hospitals. “Through these efforts, members have been able to further care access, improve community health, and inspire even greater change.”

The guide summarizes award-winning and highlighted programs in the Gage Awards’ Quality Improvement and Population Health categories. Committed to caring for people who face social and economic barriers to care, the association’s more than 300 members focus their work on improving equity and reducing health disparities — a shared mission reflected in the featured projects.

“This guide not only recognizes excellence in care but also encourages transformative structural change to support the nation’s most underserved and underrepresented patients,” says Shannon Sale, MHA, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Grady Health System, in Atlanta, and chair of the association’s awards committee.

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About America’s Essential Hospitals
America’s Essential Hospitals is the leading association and champion for hospitals dedicated to equitable, high-quality care for all, including those who face social and financial barriers to care. Since 1981, America’s Essential Hospitals has advanced policies and programs that promote health, health care access, and equity. We support our more than 300 members with advocacy, policy development, research, education, and leadership development. Communities depend on essential hospitals for care across the continuum, health care workforce training, research, public health and health equity, and other services. Essential hospitals innovate and adapt to lead all of health care toward better outcomes and value.

About Essential Hospitals Institute
Essential Hospitals Institute leads research, education, dissemination, and leadership development for America’s Essential Hospitals. To advance the quality, equity, safety, and affordability of care at essential hospitals, the Institute identifies promising practices in the field, provides professional development training, promotes practice improvements, and disseminates innovative approaches to care. It does this with an eye toward improving individual and population health, especially for underrepresented and marginalized people and communities.

Contact:
Carl Graziano
cgraziano@essentialhospitals.org
202.585.0102

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