The Quality Healthcare Workplace Awards (QHWAs) is a partnership of the Ontario Hospital Association and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s HealthForceOntario. This progressive improvement framework offers Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum level awards with assessment designed to encourage self-evaluation, learning and improvement. The awards program recognizes organizational efforts to improve healthcare workplaces in ways that contribute to providers’ quality of work life and the quality of the care and services they deliver.
2012 QHWAs
In preparation for next year’s awards, enhancements and changes are currently being made to the QHWA application.
The 2012 application will be released this spring. The OHA will communicate with members as updates are available on the 2012 awards program.
2011 QHWAs
On November 7, the winners of the 2011 Quality Healthcare Workplace Awards were announced at HealthAchieve. The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s HealthForceOntario (HFO) partnered to develop the awards program as a way to recognize employer and staff efforts in fostering and establishing healthy workplaces.
The program also offers organizations a framework for improvement, and they can win awards in four categories: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. The program is designed to identify and promote ongoing self-evaluation, learning and improvement among organizations. Its main goals are to enhance organizational performance and promote the dissemination of effective practices that impact on the quality of health care workplaces.
In 2011, 37 organizations – including 34 hospitals – and three Community Care Access Centres (CCACs) received awards.
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- Halton Healthcare Services
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital
- The Hospital for Sick Children
- University Health Network
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- Campbellford Memorial Hospital
- Central CCAC
- Lakeridge Health
- North York General Hospital
- Northumberland Hills Hospital
- Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences
- Rouge Valley Health System
- St. Joseph's Care Group
- St. Michael's Hospital
- Waterloo Wellington CCAC
- William Osler Health System
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- Bluewater Health
- Brant Community Healthcare System
- Bruyère Continuing Care
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- Grey Bruce Health Services
- Hanover and District Hospital
- Hôpital Général de Hawkesbury & District General Hospital
- Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital
- Kingston General Hospital
- Markham Stouffville Hospital Corporation
- Mississauga Halton CCAC
- Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
- The Royal Victoria Hospital of Barrie
- Wellington Health Care Alliance
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- Cornwall Community Hospital
- Dryden Regional Health Centre
- Niagara Health System
- Peterborough Regional Health Centre
- South Huron Hospital Association
- Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care
- West Nipissing General Hospital
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For the first time, a scholarship of $5,000 was awarded by the 2011 awards’ sponsor, NRC Picker Canada, to one participating organization. This scholarship was open to small hospitals in the Gold category with the intent to help them move up to the Platinum level. The scholarship was targeted at small hospitals to recognize the greater challenges they face in supporting quality workplace initiatives and in completing the lengthy submission. The 2011 scholarship went to Campbellford Memorial Hospital.
For more information about the Quality Healthcare Workplace Awards, please contact Kimberly Burrows at kburrows@oha.com.
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