About the Vision Awards
A healthier future for all – inspired by faith, driven by innovation, and powered by our humanity.
A Healthier
Future for All
recognizing excellence in quality, patient experience, clinical standards, and academics
Inspired by
Faith
recognizing acts of inspiration and community impact from our teams across the ministry, whether in direct patient care or behind the scenes
Driven by
Innovation
recognizing the innovative workflows, methods, ideas, technology adoption, or product that improves clinical care
Powered by
Our Humanity
recognizing impactful displays of empathy and humankindness
There are six awards categories connected to our vision statement:
Inspired by Faith
Inspiration Award
We broadly define inspiration as an action/behavior, closely aligned with our vision, that positively inspires and influences the actions of people or positively inspires and influences clinical programs/processes in uplifting ways.
Example: Did a colleague inspire you to make a positive change in your life, program or workflow?
Driven by Innovation
Innovation Award
We broadly define innovation as a new mindset, method, idea, product, etc., that accelerates our vision and improves clinical care.
Example: Virtual workflow organization to improve the provider and patient experience.
Powered by Humanity
Compassion Award
We broadly define compassion as a deliberate and profound act of Kindness that exemplifies and expands our vision, and positively impacts employees, providers and/or patients across our ministry.
Example: A colleague who is organizing a Thanksgiving food drive or serving a meal to those experiencing homelessness.
A Healthier Future for All
Cornerstone to developing “a healthier future for all” is our work in quality, patient experience, and education. The Vision Awards will also recognize top performance in quality and patient experience as well as some of the leading research conducted across our ministry.
Academic Excellence Award
Recognizing how we're advancing the practice of medicine through key research or published studies.
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Patient Experience and Quality Awards are not open to nominations. They are quantitative and awarded based on performance metrics from the past year.
Patient Experience Award
Recognition of the clinic team in Patient Experience. This award will honor clinic sites measured as a Top Performer or as Most Improved, as rated by our patients
Quality Award
Recognition of our focus on the quality of care that we deliver every day. This award will recognize leaders in key clinical quality standards such as diabetes and hypertension control as well as depression screening.
Criteria to Nominate
All nominations will be first reviewed and approved by Human Resources to determine eligibility. Approved nominations will move forward to be reviewed and scored by division and overall judging committee. The judges will use a grading rubric to award points to nominations to advance through to the final selection process. From these judging bodies, division and overall winners will be selected.
Judging
Judging will be conducted by an internal committee, comprised of Physician Enterprise leaders. Each division will have a judging committee, and there will be an overall judging committee. The judging committee will select the awardees by scoring each eligible nominee according to the criteria in each category.
