Acclaim Award
The Acclaim Award recognizes medical groups and other organized systems of care that are bringing the American healthcare system closer to the ideal delivery model – one that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.
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.
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
Apply Now for the 2026 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 2026 at AMGA’s Annual Conference.
Ready to apply?
For more information and instructions on how to submit an Acclaim Award Abstract click here.
What Our Members Say
“Receiving the Acclaim Award is a great honor that speaks to Henry Ford Health’s dedication to providing remarkable, comprehensive, coordinated and life-changing healthcare for all. Every day, our physicians are deeply focused on building meaningful relationships with; providing the highest quality care for; and improving the health and wellness of our patients. Our mission and core purpose is to make the impossible possible, and we are so privileged to have the opportunity to impact—and improve—the healthcare landscape in Michigan and beyond.”
-- Dr. Jerry Finkel, SVP, Henry Ford Health, Chief Medical Officer, Value-Based Enterprise and Chief Primary Health Officer
Recent Recipients, Honorees, and Finalists
2025
Finalists
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BJC Accountable Care Organization
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Mayo Clinic Health System
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Mercy Medical Group
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Northwell Health
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Ochsner Health
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Southwest Medical Associates, Part of Optum
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SSM Health Oklahoma
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SSM Health
2024
2023
Recipient
2020
Recipient
2019
Recipient
Honorees
Past Acclaim Award Recipients and Honorees
- Allina Medical Clinic
- CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System
- Cornerstone Health Care, PA
- Corewell Health
- Geisinger Health System
- Group Health Physicians
- HealthPartners
- Henry Ford Medical Group
- Mayo Clinic Health System – Midelfort Clinic
- Mercy Clinics, Inc.
- Mount Carmel
- New West Physicians
- Park Nicollet Health Services
- Premier Medical Associates
- Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group
- St. Elizabeth Physicians
- The Everett Clinic
- The Permanente Medical Group
- The Salem Clinic, P.C.
- UW Medicine
- Allina Medical Clinic
- Aurora Health Care
- Ballad Health
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Group
- Carle Clinic/Health Alliance Medical Plans
- Carolinas Physicians Network
- Cleveland Clinic
- Dreyer Medical Clinic
- Edmonds Family Medicine Clinic
- Gould Medical Group
- HealthCare Partners
- HealthPartners
- HealthTexas Provider Network
- Henry Ford Health System
- Intermountain Healthcare
- Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Lexington Clinic
- Lovelace Health Systems
- Mayo Clinic Health System – Decorah Clinic
- Mayo Clinic Health System – Lake City Clinic
- Mayo Clinic Health System – Midelfort Clinic
- Mayo Clinic Health System – Owatonna Clinic
- Mayo Clinic Health System – Red Cedar
- Mercy (St. John’s Health System)
- Mercy Clinics, Inc.
- Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group
- NorthShore University HealthSystem
- North Texas Specialty Physicians
- Northwest Permanente Medical Group
- Ochsner Health System
- Park Nicollet Health Services
- Providence Medical Group
- Reliant Medical Group (Fallon Clinic)
- Sharp Rees- Stealy Medical Group
- Southeast Permanente Group (Kaiser Permanente Georgia)
- St. Elizabeth Physicians
- Susquehanna Health
- The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- ThedaCare Physicians
- TriHealth
- University of Michigan Medical Group
- University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Utica Park Clinic
- Virginia Mason Medical Center
- WestMed Medical Group
- Wilmington Health, PLLC
Acclaim Award History
The AMGA Acclaim Award, first awarded in 1999 at the AMGA Annual Conference, began as a way of recognizing medical groups for outstanding improvement in patient outcomes. In 2004, the application criteria were restructured around the six Institute of Medicine (IOM) Aims for the 21st Century and placed a heavy emphasis on leadership involvement. In 2009, the application criteria were modified around the six Institute of Medicine Aims by incorporating the six attributes of an ideal healthcare delivery system as identified by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on High Performance Health System. Between 2020 and 2023, we restructured the award, which is now given to a recipient and two honorees as well as recognizing finalists. Advancing health equity is now an essential criteria as well.
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