Ten charitable hospital outreach programs have been recognized as "Programs of Excellence" by Atlanta-based staffing and technology company Jackson Healthcare and will share equally in $100,000 of unrestricted funds.
Each of the winning programs demonstrated excellence in community impact, innovation, collaboration, leading practices and replicability.
Here are the 10 winning hospitals and program awardees.
- Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital (Jacksonville, Fla.). The hospital's Adaptive Sports and Recreation Program helps thousands of people with disabilities overcome inactivity and isolation through clinics, lectures, tournaments and multi-sport activities.
- Island Hospital (Anacortes, Wash.). The hospital foundation's Community Mental and Behavioral Health Initiative tackles access to mental healthcare through an outpatient clinic — the first of its kind in the state.
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York). Food to Overcome Outcomes Disparities has improved food security among underserved cancer patients through medically-tailored food pantries located in hospitals throughout New York City.
- Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). Established in 2010, the Global Health Program focuses on boosting access to safe perioperative care by connecting with local healthcare workers in low income countries throughout the world.
- Licking Memorial Hospital (Newark, Ohio). The hospital opened Kids Place, a child advocacy center, to offer a safe place for victims of child abuse victims. The center aims to help children and families reduce the long-term impact of abuse trauma.
- Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown, Pa.). The Medical Home Project increases care coordination between hospital personnel and patients with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
- Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital (Charlevoix, Mich.). The School Nurse Program has provided access to needed healthcare to more than 3,000 students through onsite registered nurses.
- Fairfield Medical Center (Lancaster, Ohio). Snider Community Heart Watch is a program created by Fairfield employees to create a heart-safe community after multiple cases of sudden cardiac arrest in local young people.
- Baptist Health (Jacksonville, Fla.). The system's Tipping the Scale Adolescent and Advocacy Intervention Mentoring Program began as a pilot in 1999. It involves helping at-risk high school students increase their GPAs, graduate, develop career goals, increase self esteem and reduce incarceration.
- Franciscan St. Margaret Health (Hammond, Ind.). The Volunteer Advocates for Seniors and Incapacitated Adults model was developed to protect the health, well-being and safety of decisionally-incapable elderly and incapacitated adults through volunteer guardian services.
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