The CAPH/SNI Quality Leaders Awards recognizes and showcases the innovative and creative system improvements achieved by California’s public hospitals and health systems. For more than 20 years, this awards program has acknowledged more than 300 such quality improvements among our members.
The goals of the program are to:
- Encourage the sharing of effective strategies and best practices that address pressing clinical and operational issues and/or advance community health;
- Recognize dedicated and talented professionals in public hospitals and health systems;
- Showcase the unique and creative approaches that California’s public hospital systems have taken to carry out their missions and address the health care needs of the communities they serve.
New Clinical Learning Award
In addition to the traditional QLA program, CAPH/SNI will have a concurrent application process for the new QLA: Clinical Learning Award, designed to honor both an individual clinician-in-training (including residents, medical students, and nursing students), and the institution they trained in. This award is intended to encourage clinicians-in-training to participate in public hospital system quality improvement projects, and to honor those institutions that support this work and integrate quality improvement efforts into their training infrastructure.
Kaiser Permanente Clinical Systems Development Award
This award, sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, was first awarded in 2006 to recognize a public hospital or public health system that has demonstrated improvement in integrating several parts of its delivery system in order to provide better quality service and more efficient care. The award recognizes a key principle of the Kaiser Permanente-CAPH/SNI partnership, now in its seventh year: the sharing of strategies and resources between the partner organizations to improve access to quality care.
Click here to see descriptions of the 2011 Quality Leaders Awardees.
Click here to learn about the QLA Webinar Series and to view the presentations.
For more information, contact
Norma Batongbacal at (510) 874-7116. For information specific to the this year’s new
QLA: Clinical Learning Award, contact
Sasha Morduchowicz (510) 874-7121