Circle of Life Award: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care
The Circle of Life Award honors innovative palliative and end-of-life care programs of any size serving patients with serious or life-limiting illness that demonstrate progress in 1 or more of the following areas:
- Advancing care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, equitable and patient- and family-centered
- Partnering with payers, other providers, community groups, faith communities and others relevant to the community served
- Developing meaningful measures and metrics to track organizational progress and/or advance the field
- Implementing nontraditional models of care delivery and
- Fully integrating palliative care into a system of care or a community
- Making palliative care financially sustainable long term
Honorees are typically:
- Emphasizing coordinated or integrated care delivery throughout all settings
- Engaging underserved populations
- Promoting palliative care in diverse populations
- Using strategies for engaging communities
- Creating partnerships with other healthcare organizations and practitioners, and initiatives within long-term care facilities
Rural organizations have received the award in the past. Awards will be presented at the 2025 AHA Leadership Summit, July 20-22 in Nashville, Tennessee.
All organizations or groups in the United States that provide palliative or end-of-life care are eligible for the award.
Up to 3 awards are presented each year.
A link to the application package is available on the program website.
Email completed applications to circleoflife@aha.org.
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