John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards
Congratulations 2024 Eisenberg Awardees
The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum congratulate the 2024 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awardees:
Elliott K. Main, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine as the 2024 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awardee for Individual Achievement in recognition of his unwavering leadership of maternal quality and safety programs at the hospital, health system, state, and national levels.
Parkland Health as the 2024 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awardee for Local Level Innovation for its initiatives to improve patient support throughout their diagnostic trajectory by Identifying and Preventing Missed Opportunities for Diagnosis and addressing delayed imaging surveillance, abnormal tumor markers without specialist follow-up, abnormal mammograms in patients without primary care physicians, critical aortic aneurysm findings, suspicious lung lesions requiring rapid evaluation, and new cancer diagnoses lacking oncology follow-up.
CommonSpirit Health as the 2024 John M. Eisenberg Awardee for National Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality for its quality improvement model to address heart failure mortality, perinatal hypertension, and hospital-acquired infections including implementation of project-specific evidence-based intervention bundles, use of a technology suite (clinical quality data repository with Demographic data on disparities), and implementation of a Virtually Integrated Care (VIC) model.
The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum also recognize the 2024 Top Finalists for the Local and National Award Categories and all organizations that applied in 2024. Thank you to all of these organizations for their efforts to address patient safety and healthcare quality. These efforts have led to measurable, improved outcomes for patients.
Read more about each awardee’s patient safety and quality improvement work and achievements. You can also access the award recipient applications to read more about their work and improvements.
About the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards
The John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards recognize major achievements by individuals and organizations to improve patient safety and health care quality.
Each year, the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the Joint Commission recognize the best examples of individual, local, and national efforts to improve patient safety and health care quality through the prestigious Eisenberg Awards. These awards bring the quality community together to honor groundbreaking initiatives that are consistent with the aims of the National Quality Strategy: better care, healthy people and communities, and smarter spending.
Launched in 2002, the awards honor the late John M. Eisenberg, MD, MBA, former administrator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. An impassioned advocate for health care quality improvement, Dr. Eisenberg was a founding member of NQF’s board of directors.
Awards are presented in three categories:
- Individual Achievement – Individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and scholarship in patient safety and health care quality through a substantive body of work
- National Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality – The focus of the project or initiative extends beyond local areas to being implemented across the country to achieve national impact. Original projects or initiatives involving successful system changes or interventions that make the environment of care safer, or that advocate on the patient’s behalf. These innovative projects or initiatives may address new technologies, protocols and procedures, education, organization culture, legislation, the media, patient advocacy, systems theory, etc.
- Local Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality – The project or initiative focuses on effecting impact at the local community, organization or regional level (e.g., statewide). Original projects or initiatives involving successful system changes or interventions that make the environment of care safer, or that advocate on the patient’s behalf. These innovative projects or initiatives may address new technologies, protocols and procedures, education, organization culture, legislation, the media, patient advocacy, and systems theory, among other areas.
Eisenberg Award Panel
A diverse panel of national patient safety and quality experts has been assembled to review the submitted applications and select the award recipients.
Previous Eisenberg Recipients
Past award winners have implemented highly effective programs to advance quality and patient safety, including initiatives to improve care coordination and substantially reduce hospital readmission rates, achieve significant decreases in hospital-acquired infections, and create robust cultures and systems of safety.
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