Nomination Season Begins for 2010 Eisenberg Awards
- 3/3/2010
- Author: Jim Parker
- Category: Perspectives on Patient Safety Blog
- 13952 Views
- 0 Comments
The Joint Commission is now accepting nominations for the 2010 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. Award submissions will be due at The Joint Commission by close of business April 12, 2010.
The Eisenberg Awards recognize major achievements of individuals and organizations in improving patient safety and health care quality. The Joint Commission and the National Quality Form (NQF)
select recipients annually in five categories:
1. Individual achievement (domestic and international combined)
2. Domestic system innovation in patient safety and/or health care quality at the national level
3. Domestic system innovation in patient safety and/or health care quality at the local level
4. Domestic research
5. International research or system innovation in patient safety and/or health care quality
The awards are named in honor of John M. Eisenberg, M.D., former director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
and member of the founding Board of Directors of the NQF. The work of award nominees and applicants should be clearly linked to the principles that Eisenberg promoted during his career, including improving the quality of health care and patient safety, leadership in advancing methods for measuring and reporting health care quality, expanding the public’s capacity to evaluate the quality and safety of health care, and promoting health care choices based upon information about safety and quality.
And yes, one may nominate him- or herself!
Visit The Joint Commission Web site
for more information and for nomination forms.
|