OHA is no longer accepting nominations for the following Health Care Leadership Awards.

David Hendershot Rural Health Promotion Award
Presented at the OHA Annual Meeting Leadership Lunch, June 11, 2008.
This award recognizes a small and rural Ohio hospital for providing an exemplary program or service consistent with the vision of OHA’s Foundation for Healthy Communities to advance good health; initiate health improvement and education by engaging partners, promote proven strategies, and advocate for wellness. The award is named for Field Service Director David Hendershot, whose 26-year OHA career was marked by personal devotion to Ohio’s small and rural hospitals, and who died October 5, 2006. The recipient hospital will receive a cash award to use in furtherance of community health improvement efforts. This is the first year the award will be presented.
Full award description

Donald R. Newkirk Award
Presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008
This award recognizes and honors an individual, group or organization that has made a significant lifetime contribution to the health care field in Ohio. This is the association’s highest award and bears the name of the individual who headed OHA for 27 years, from 1962-1989. Nominees may include persons living or deceased, a group or an organization in the field of administration, medicine, research or education.

Distinguished Service Award
Presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008
The recognition honors a person whose professional attainments embody such qualities as an outstanding manager or leader, a mentor or teacher, service to the community, or some other special achievement. Nominees may be the chief executive officers or other senior managers of OHA-member organizations, either past or present.

Hospital Safety Awards
Presented at the OHA Annual Meeting Welcome and Keynote Address, June 9, 2008
Awards are given to hospitals for successful hospital safety programs and superior employee safety records. The safety awards were created in 1953 by the Ohio Hospital Association and the Industrial Commission of Ohio to promote workplace safety. Awards are given to one hospital per bed size category with the lowest injury rate, those hospitals in the top twenty percent and the hospital with the most improved safety record.
View 2008 safety award recipients
Contact Rhonda Major-Mack at rhondam@ohanet.org with questions.

Leadership Through Advocacy Award
Presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008
This award recognizes an individual, a hospital or a health system that demonstrates throughout the year the ability to effectively advocate in the legislative and regulatory arenas for the betterment of Ohio hospitals and the patients and communities they serve.
Full award description

Meritorious Service Award
Presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008
The award recognizes an individual or a group who are friends of hospitals or health systems and whose support of the health care industry reflects the public interest. Nominees may be individuals who are not OHA members, including hospital or health system governing board members or other volunteers, medical staff members and others in the public or private sector.

William C. Kelley Safety Leadership Award
Presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008
The award recognizes demonstrated leadership in the field of community, occupational, patient or visitor safety. Nominees may be the chief executive officers of OHA-member organizations.

John Chapman Award
Presented at the OHA Annual Meeting Welcome and Keynote Address, June 9, 2008
This award recognizes a hospital or health system that has shown excellence in initiating or supporting hospital pollution prevention programs such as reduction of waste-stream volume or elimination of mercury from the hospital. The award is named after John Chapman, popularly called “Johnny Appleseed,” who planted thousands of apple trees across the Midwest during the 19^th century.

Healthcare Consumer Advocacy Award
Presented at the OHA Recognition Dinner, June 9, 2008
Recognizing an outstanding individual or organization for a significant impact on the quality of care for Ohio health care consumers. The award was established in 1999 by the Ohio Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy (OSHCA), an affiliate society of OHA.

Contacts
Tiffany Himmelreich, Manager, Media & Public Relations

2008 OHA Recognition Dinner
Monday, June 9, 2008

2008 OHA Annual Meeting
June 9-11, 2008

Hilton Columbus at Easton
3900 Chagrin Dr.
Columbus, OH 43219

 

2008 Award Nomination Timeline
Dec. 7, 2007	Nomination forms to hospitals
Feb. 11, 2008	EARLY deadline: Health Care Worker of the Year nominations due to OHA *TWO bonus points for early submission* FINAL deadline: Health Care Leadership Awards due to OHA
March 3, 2008	FINAL deadline for Hospital Safety Awards
March 10, 2008	FINAL deadline Health Care Worker of the Year - nominations due to OHA
April 28, 2008	OHA notifies Health Care Leadership recipients
April 30, 2008	OHA notifies Health Care Worker of the Year nominees
May 27, 2008	Registration due for reserved seating
June 9, 2008	OHA Recognition Dinner