2024 ASHRM Awards

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 healthcare enterprise.

The ASHRM Innovation Award is sponsored by       RL Datix
 

Congratulations to the 2026 Innovation Award Recipient!

Hamad Medical Corporation 

Program Title:

THIQA Second Victim Support Program: Rebuilding Safety Culture Through Workforce Wellbeing 

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

  • Provides a system that can be replicated or adapted by other organizations.
  • The entry clearly establishes the relevance and priority in addressing the issue.
  • The entry describes research and/or a literature review and conducted prior to implementation.
  • The implementation strategies are original.
  • Level of improvement(s) achieved is significant.
  • The success of the initiative is described as a team effort.

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

2025: UCI Health - "Ambulatory Clinic Procedural Fire Risk Prevention"
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"