“Bright Lights” Awards Nominations - Deadline Extended to August 11

 

Nominate an outstanding team or individual today! Deadline to submit nomination is now 12PM on  August 11!

Little innovations, big impact – “Bright Lights” Award winners are innovators, making meaningful changes to improve the patient experience, health outcomes and reduce overall costs to the health care system. The awards program recognizes leadership, outstanding work and significant progress being made to improve the value delivered by interprofessional primary care teams across Ontario. Awards will be presented at the fourth annual AFHTO 2015 Conference Awards Dinner, on October 28, 2015. Winners in four award categories will receive an education grant*. Deadline to complete the online form and submit supporting documents is August 7 12PM on August 11, 2015.

Make a nomination today (See “Bright Lights” nomination guide for details):

  1. Review the nomination categories in advance (see nomination guide pg. 3 for descriptions).
  2. Review nomination evaluation criteria (see nomination guide pg. 2 for details).
  3. Complete the online nomination form.
  4. Submit supporting documents to info@afhto.ca:
    1. 1-4 high-quality photos of nominees in png. or jpg. format to be featured at the Awards Dinner on October 28.
    2. Signed statement of attestation to release photos for AFHTO use.
    3. Any supporting evidence and materials as appropriate.
  5. Deadline to complete online form and submit supporting documents is August 7 12PM on August 11, 2015.

Award nominations will be reviewed and selected by the “Bright Lights” Review Committee.

Award Categories

One or more awards will be presented in each of the following categories:

  1. Population-based primary health care: planning and integration for the community*
  2. Optimizing capacity of interprofessional teams*
  3. Transforming patients’ and caregivers’ experience and health *
  4. Building the rural health care team: making the most of available resources
  5. Advancing manageable meaningful measurement*
  6. Leadership and governance for accountable care
  7. Clinical innovations keeping people at home and out of the hospital

* Thank you to our generous sponsors for providing education grants to award winners in the categories marked above:

  • Boehringer Ingelheim for providing four award recipients in the Population-based primary health care: planning and integration for the community and Transforming patients and caregivers experience and health categories with the opportunity to attend to attend the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Conference on March 20-22, 2016, in Orlando, Florida.
  • Merck Canada Inc. for providing a $3,000 education grant for the “Bright Lights” award recipient in the Optimizing capacity of interprofessional teams and Advancing Manageable Meaningful Measurement categories.

Please note: Sponsors have no role in establishing award criteria, call for nominations, judging or selecting the program winners.

AFHTO “Bright Lights” Awards – Past Winners

To learn more about past “Bright Lights” Awards winners and their accomplishments, please visit any of the links below:

 

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