President’s Excellence Awards

The President’s Excellence Awards will recognize Alberta Health Services staff, physicians with privileges and teams who demonstrate innovation, collaboration and patient focus, and exemplify the AHS values of respect, accountability, transparency, engagement, safety, learning and performance. The awards are an opportunity to celebrate and pay tribute to their exceptional contributions, said Dr. Chris Eagle, AHS President and CEO.

Information outlining the criteria for each of the three awards has been added to the More Information section of the website.

The three awards categories selected by Dr. Eagle include:

• The President’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievements in Quality and Safety Improvement, which recognizes individuals or teams who have worked to improve health care quality by demonstrating commitment and implementing or redesigning a service or process which achieves exceptional improvements to: patient safety; patient experience; patient health outcomes and/or organizational or clinical effectiveness;
• The President’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievements in Workplace Health and Safety, which recognizes individuals or teams who have succeeded in creating a safer, healthier work environment by implementing a new, unique, forward-thinking idea that improves workplace health and safety; and
• The President’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievements in Research, which recognizes a project or initiative which harnesses the collective efforts of Alberta Health Services staff and physicians together with research and academic partners. The partnership will be innovative, use collaborative problem solving or practice in the delivery of effective clinical care, and show how research translation has contributed to improved outcomes for staff and/or patients.

Nominations must be received by Jan. 31, 2012. Representatives of AHS committees and Dr. Eagle will review all submissions and select their top five submissions in each category. The Quality and Safety Improvement, and Research categories will be judged by representatives of the Clinical Strategic Executive Committee. Representatives of the Alberta Clinician Council will judge the Workplace Health and Safety category.

Finalists will be chosen and announced at the end of April. Award recipients will be announced the last working day prior to the second week of May, during which AHS will mark Canada Health Day May 12. The President’s Excellence Awards will be presented at the recipients’ worksites at special events hosted by Dr. Eagle, along with members of the Executive Committee and local leaders. Nomination forms, printable posters and FAQs are available on the AHS website or from AHS Human Resources Advisors.