ASHRM Innovation Award
The ASHRM Innovation Award recognizes organizational excellence in patient safety and celebrates the efforts of risk management professionals in promoting safety across the health care enterprise.
The ASHRM Innovation Award is sponsored by 
Eligibility
- Open to organizations that have demonstrated innovative improvements in patient safety.
- All ASHRM members may submit a nomination on behalf of their organization.
- Self-nominations are allowed.
Criteria
- Program can be replicated or adapted by others.
- Clear relevance and prioritization of the safety issue.
- Supported by research or literature review.
- Original implementation strategies.
- Significant results achieved.
- Success described as a team achievement.
What Do the Recipients Get?
- Engraved prestigious crystal award.
- Receives up to two complimentary registrations to ASHRM's annual conference during which the award is received.
- Will be honored during the ASHRM in-person annual conference.
Past Recipients
2024: Advent Health - "Reduce Your Patient Fall Rates: Leveraging a ‘Bootcamp’ Approach to Create a Culture Change"
2023: North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) - "Anesthesia Risk Alert (ARA) Program"
2022: Texas Health Resources - "Turn your Attention to Patient Safety"
2021: Atrium Health - "Product Safety Response Teams – An Innovative Program to Improve Patient Safety and Prevent Harm from Supply Chain Disruptions"
2020: Johns Hopkins Medicine - "The Johns Hopkins Medicine Venous Thromboembolism Collaborative"
2019: Lake Health - "Improving Care of the Patient with Post-Operative Respiratory Failure"
2018: Adventist Health System - "Improving Patient Safety by Incorporating a Human Factors Engineering Approach to the Root Cause Analysis Process Following Serious Safety Events"
2017: Abington Hospital, Jefferson Health - "Create a Safe Night"
2016: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, GBMC Healthcare, Inc. - "Using Lean Daily Management (LDM) Improves Safety and Reduces Harm"