Six award categories supporting our vision
Inspired by Faith
Inspiration award
Recognizing an action or behavior that is closely aligned with our vision and positively impacts patient care, directly or indirectly, in unique ways. “Inspired by faith” draws on the deep faith of our founding congregations as well as the faith of the thousands of employees and millions of patients and families who entrust their health care to us every day.
Nomination examples:
A nominee exhibited exceptional, financially astute leadership by successfully managing multiple departments, rapidly integrating new specialty clinics and correcting multi-year billing errors to secure substantial revenue for the organization.
A nominated team went beyond basic medical services to provide a "sanctuary" of compassion and dignity for highly vulnerable populations such as the homeless. Their inspiring commitment to building profound relationships is demonstrated by their success in helping a chronically homeless and developmentally delayed patient secure stable housing, thus empowering the patient to find a path toward healing and a better life.
Driven by Innovation
Innovation award
Recognizing the innovative workflows, methods, ideas, technology adoption or product that improves clinical care. We broadly define innovation as a new mindset, method, idea, product or silmilar initiative that accelerates our vision and positively impacts patients, directly or indirectly across our ministry.
Nomination examples:
A nominated team designed a new comprehensive system for emergency preparedness and response across 220 clinics, directly enhancing the safety and readiness of care for all patients in an emergency.
A nominee created a new algorithm and specialist role to optimize workflow. This process innovation improved patient flow and efficiency, leading to a smoother, faster and more positive discharge experience for patients.
Powered by Humanity
Compassion award
Recognizing impactful displays of empathy and humankindness. We broadly define compassion as impactful demonstrations of empathy and kindness that exemplify and expand our vision and positively impact patients, directly or indirectly across our ministry.
Nomination examples:
A nominee, a surgery scheduler, consistently demonstrates compassion and empathy by going above and beyond to support her clinic team and guide patients through their entire surgery journey, including handling insurance, pre-admission and post-surgery questions.
A nominee, a selfless team lead, demonstrated exceptional compassion by supporting her coworkers with personal crises, including leading an effort to create an internal "angel tree" to help struggling staff, which significantly boosted clinic morale.
A healthier future for all
Cornerstone to developing “a healthier future for all” is our work in quality, patient experience, and education. The Vision Awards will also recognize top performance in quality and patient experience as well as some of the leading research conducted across our ministry. Patient Experience and Quality Awards are based on performance metrics from the previous year. They are quantitative and not open to nominations.
Academic excellence award
Recognizing how we're advancing the practice of medicine through key research or published studies.
Patient experience award
Recognition of the clinic team in Patient Experience. This award will honor clinic sites measured as a Top Performer or as Most Improved, as rated by our patients.
Quality award
Recognition of our focus on the quality of care that we deliver every day. This award will recognize leaders in key clinical quality standards such as diabetes and hypertension control as well as depression screening.
Criteria to nominate
CommonSpirit employed or aligned individuals or teams that provide direct clinical care, impact clinical care or are part of a program that does (such as operations or finance) can be nominated and participate in the Clinical Excellence Vision Awards.
Nomination and judging process
All nominations are reviewed and approved by Human Resources. Approved nominations move forward to regional judging committees. Using a standard grading rubric, judges select regional winners who will advance to overall judging and selection. Overall winners are invited to receive their award in person at the annual Clinical Excellence Leadership Summit.