WSHA’s Everyday Extraordinary Award recognizes a rural hospital completing an exceptional quality improvement project. Your application should outline a project addressing a significant problem, employ a data-driven approach, consider a culture of safety in implementing a solution and explain your results.
Ideal projects should scale for adaptation by other rural hospitals. Last year’s winner was Lake Chelan Health for its Aggregate Quality Score program.
This award is given once a year, but WSHA accepts applications year-round. We are currently encouraging applications for our 2025 Award, which will be presented at WSHA & AWPHD’s Rural Hospital Leadership Conference in Chelan.
Applications are due by April 1.
Qualified submissions will demonstrate successful implementation of strategies that have produced performance improvement related to patient safety. This may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Improving access to care for vulnerable patients (e.g. patients who are pregnant, parenting, geriatric; those who have behavior health or substance use disorders)
- Reducing adverse events (e.g. medication errors, falls, pressure ulcers, infections)
- Addressing root causes of near miss, adverse or sentinel events (e.g. communication, workflow, human factor innovation, reconfiguration of space)
- Using multidisciplinary teams to implement new strategies for emerging patient health needs (e.g. sepsis response teams, COVID-19, multi-visit patient readmissions)
- Managing population health across the care continuum (e.g. diabetes, complex case management, COPD)
All rural WSHA member hospitals are invited to participate. Multiple applications from the same organization are accepted.
Please contact Megan Herman at meganh@wsha.org with any questions (Megan Herman)
