WSHA would like to congratulate all the winners of the 2017 Community Health Leadership Award! The awards were given at last week’s Annual Meeting. This year’s Community Health Leadership Award recipients were:
- Gold winners:
- Silver winners:
- Confluence Health: Medication Take Back
- Morton General Hospital: Self-Care Groups
- Overlake Medical Center: Active Senior Fair
- Providence St. Peter Hospital: No One Dies Alone
- Seattle Children’s: Partnerships to Improve Community Health
- Trios Health: Camp Trios Empowers Kids with Type 1 Diabetes
- UW Medicine/Harborview Medical Center: Managing Pain and Substance Abuse Disorders
- Virginia Mason Memorial: Good Opioid Prescribing Practices for Managing Chronic Pain
The award is given annually to health care organizations that are serving their communities’ broader health needs in innovative and lasting ways. The recipients aren’t just serving their patients, but they are making their entire communities healthier.
Read more about this year’s winners and the Community Health Leadership Award on the WSHA website. (Tim Pfarr)
