Acclaim Award
Honoring excellence and innovation
AMGA’s Acclaim Award honors healthcare delivery organizations that are bringing their organization closer to the ideal medical group and health system. The award’s framework is structured around the Quadruple Aim. The components of the Quadruple Aim include improving patient experience of care, improving health of populations with a focus on quality outcomes, reducing the per capita cost of health care, and emphasizing workplace wellness. AMGA believes this is an essential framework for medical groups and integrated health systems as they move toward value-based care.
Apply Now for the 2024 Acclaim Award
Organizations that want to apply for the Acclaim Award will first submit a one-page abstract. The Acclaim Award Review Committee will review and score submitted abstracts. The top-scored abstracts will move on to the next round as the Acclaim Award Finalists.
Acclaim Award Finalists will then submit a full application where they will have the opportunity to describe their organization’s initiatives along the path of the Quadruple Aim. The Acclaim Award Review Committee will review those applications and select the recipient and honoree(s). The presentation and announcement of the award will occur in April 2024 at AMGA’s Annual Conference.
Ready to apply?
For more information and instructions on how to submit an Acclaim Award Abstract click here.
2023 Acclaim Award
The Acclaim Award recognizes the nation’s premier healthcare delivery organization that has successfully aligned itself with the Quadruple Aim by moving toward equitable and value-based care. This year, Premier Medical Associates has been named as the 2023 Acclaim Award recipient. Baylor Scott & White Medical Group and Utica Park Clinic were named Acclaim Award honorees.
Recipient
Honorees
Finalists
- Allina Health
- Atlantic Medical Group
- Henry Ford Health
- Houston Methodist
- Lehigh Valley
- SIMED Health
- Vancouver Clinic
- Valley Health
Mission
To honor the nation's premier healthcare delivery organizations that are high performing and are bringing their organization closer to the ideal medical group and health system by:
- Measurably improving the quality and value of care
- Improving patient experience and outcomes
- Continuously learning and innovating
- Improving population health
What Our Members Say
“To us, the Acclaim Award criteria is blueprint for delivering excellent care. It sets a high bar so getting over that bar requires us to hold ourselves to an equally high standard. Transforming care delivery takes considerable commitment and resources, so receiving the award is an especially satisfying recognition of all the hard work everyone at UW Medicine contributed. Although transforming care delivery is a never-ending journey, we view this as a very important milestone.”
– David Flum, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Chief Medical Officer, University of Washington Physicians (formerly)
2019 Acclaim Award Recipient
Past Recipients and Honorees
The AMGA Acclaim Award rewards quality improvement efforts, led by physician-directed organizations that measurably improve health outcomes and quality of life for patients. All aspects of the award process are of a stature to bring national recognition to the recipients, to the quality of physician-directed care, and to the strides being made in healthcare quality improvement.
2020
Recipient
Honorees
2019
Recipient
Honoree
2018
Recipient
CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic
Honorees
Michigan Medicine
Ballad Health (formerly Wellmont Medical Associates)
2016
Recipient
Premier Medical Associates
Honorees
Cleveland Clinic
UPMC Susquehanna Medical Group
2015
Recipients
Cornerstone Health Care, P.A.
New West Physicians, P.C.
Honorees
Ochsner Health System
WESTMED Medical Group
2014
Recipient
Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group
Honorees
HealthTexas Provider Network
Wellmont Medical Associates
2013
Recipient
The Permanente Medical Group
Honorees
Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group
Wilmington Health
2012
Recipient
HealthPartners
Honorees
HealthTexas Provider Network
North Texas Specialty Physicians
2011
Recipient
Geisinger Health System
Honorees
Carolinas Physicians Network
Gould Medical Group
HealthTexas Provider Network
2010
Recipient
Group Health Physicians
Honorees
Dreyer Medical Clinic
HealthPartners
Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group
Acclaim Award History
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Questions?
If you have any questions about the Acclaim Award, please contact Senait Temesgen, AMGA Foundation senior program manager, by email or by phone at 703.838.0033 ext. 340.