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John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards

2024 Award Application Period Open Until October 29

The Application period is currently open for the 2024 award program. Each year, the prestigious Eisenberg Awards recognize major achievements by individuals and organizations that improved patient safety and healthcare quality. Categories include:

  • National Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality: Recognizes a patient safety or healthcare quality project or initiative that has achieved national impact.
  • Local Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality: Recognizes a patient safety or healthcare quality project or initiative that has achieved local or regional impact.
  • Individual Achievement: Recognizes an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and scholarship in patient safety and health care quality through a substantive body of work.

See below for helpful resources to assist you to compile and submit an application. Applications are only accepted via the online tool. Links are provided here.

 

Individual Achievement Award Application

Eisenberg Local/National Initiative Categories Application

2024 Eisenberg Award Program – Application Period Opens September 3 

Application Resources:

Please note, this year's application has been revised to clarify question intent, offer examples, and re-order questions to better reflect the trajectory of a quality improvement initiative. Use the below resources to compile the information needed to complete the application. Do not forget you will need to include your baseline, improvement, and sustainment data. Applications are only accepted through the online platform which is open until October 29, 2024.

Preview 2024 National/Local Initiative Categories 2024 National/Local Initiative Categories

Preview 2024 Individual Achievement Category 2024 Individual Achievement Category

Preview 2024 Eisenberg Award Application Tipsheet 2024 Eisenberg Award Application Tipsheet

About the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards

The John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards recognize major achievements by individuals and organizations to improve patient safety and health care quality.

John M. Eisenberg

Each year, the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the Joint Commission recognize the best examples of individual, local, and national efforts to improve patient safety and health care quality through the prestigious Eisenberg Awards. These awards bring the quality community together to honor groundbreaking initiatives that are consistent with the aims of the National Quality Strategy: better care, healthy people and communities, and smarter spending.

Launched in 2002, the awards honor the late John M. Eisenberg, MD, MBA, former administrator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. An impassioned advocate for health care quality improvement, Dr. Eisenberg was a founding member of NQF’s board of directors.

Awards are presented in three categories:

  • Individual Achievement – Individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and scholarship in patient safety and health care quality through a substantive body of work
  • National Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality – The focus of the project or initiative extends beyond local areas to being implemented across the country to achieve national impact. Original projects or initiatives involving successful system changes or interventions that make the environment of care safer, or that advocate on the patient’s behalf.  These innovative projects or initiatives may address new technologies, protocols and procedures, education, organization culture, legislation, the media, patient advocacy, systems theory, etc.
  • Local Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality – The project or initiative focuses on effecting impact at the local community, organization or regional level (e.g., statewide). Original projects or initiatives involving successful system changes or interventions that make the environment of care safer, or that advocate on the patient’s behalf.  These innovative projects or initiatives may address new technologies, protocols and procedures, education, organization culture, legislation, the media, patient advocacy, and systems theory, among other areas.
 

Eisenberg Award Panel

A diverse panel of national patient safety and quality experts has been assembled to review the submitted applications and select the award recipients.

Eisenberg Award panel list

Previous Eisenberg Recipients

Past award winners have implemented highly effective programs to advance quality and patient safety, including initiatives to improve care coordination and substantially reduce hospital readmission rates, achieve significant decreases in hospital-acquired infections, and create robust cultures and systems of safety.

Previous Eisenberg Award Recipients Previous Eisenberg Award Recipients

 

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