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2024 Eisenberg Awards Now Accepting Applications

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum (NQF) are now accepting applications for the 2024 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards, according to a release. The deadline to apply is October 29, 2024. The prestigious awards program honors groundbreaking initiatives that contribute to better care, healthy people and communities, and smarter spending.

Each year, the Eisenberg Awards recognize major achievements by individuals and organizations that improved patient safety and healthcare quality in three categories:

• National Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality, which recognizes a patient safety or healthcare quality project or initiative that has achieved national impact.
• Local Level Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality, which recognizes a patient safety or healthcare quality project or initiative that has achieved local or regional impact.
• Individual Achievement, which recognizes an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and scholarship in patient safety and healthcare quality through a substantive body of work.

Initiatives eligible for the national and local level awards must demonstrate, at minimum, 12 months of data supporting the improvement made by the featured initiative, according to the release. To support applicants, application previews, eligibility criteria and an application tip sheet are available on The Joint Commission website.

The 2024 Eisenberg Awards are the first in which the entire awards cycle takes place under The Joint Commission-NQF affiliation. This strategic collaboration has enabled both organizations to contribute their shared expertise in measuring quality and rationalizing the measurement landscape to shift focus from competing measures to advancing key outcomes, according to the release.

The 2023 Eisenberg Awards honored the Veterans Health Administration, BMC2, and Eduardo Salas, MD, chair of Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline and psychology professor at Rice University.

Launched in 2002, this awards program honors the late John M. Eisenberg, MD, former administrator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. An advocate for healthcare quality improvement, Eisenberg was a founding member of NQF’s board of directors.

This year, there is no cost to apply for the award, according to the release. Learn more and apply for the award on The Joint Commission and NQF websites.