Explore the Civitas Awards & Recognition page, featuring our Community Excellence Awards and national honors earned by Civitas and its leaders.
At Civitas Networks for Health®, we believe in celebrating the power of collaboration, innovation, and community impact. Whether recognizing our members’ contributions or the achievements of our organizational leaders, each honor reflects a shared commitment to advancing health improvement through improved data sharing across the country.
Our Community Excellence Awards shine a spotlight on Civitas members making a meaningful difference in their communities. These annual honors are presented at the Civitas Annual Conference and recognize outstanding work in various areas. Awardees are nominated by their peers and selected by a committee of Civitas member leaders. Each winner embodies the local ingenuity and commitment to data-led collaboration that is bringing about sustainable solutions.
The Partnership Promoters award recognizes two organizations who have built a sustainable and cooperative and complimentary relationship that delivers benefits to their community that are greater than the sum of the parts. Together, these organizations are breaking down data silos and integrating their services/solutions to deliver a unique capability.
The Moving Data into Action award recognizes an organization that has liberated and leveraged data to drive policy, outcomes and/or equity at the community, state, or national level. The awardee will have used multiple data sources to make the case for policy, research, or process change, and has seen the differences implemented while measuring impact.
The Community Impact award recognizes an organization that positively impacts their local community, striving to improve outreach, engagement, education, inspiration, and connection. The recipient of this award has made outstanding and meaningful contributions to identify community goals, build coalitions to achieve them, and measure progress.
The Innovation Pioneer award recognizes an organization that has identified, built, and demonstrated a new and creative way to streamline a process or workflow, or deliver new and innovative services and value. As innovation pioneers, they have reduced friction, improved quality of care, driven efficiency, and fostered equity in truly innovative ways.
The Quality Improvement Trailblazer award recognizes an organization that identified a quality measure(s)/initiative and significantly moved the needle. The organization will have shown evidence of selecting a novel quality measure, using a different process to impact it, or having a significantly greater impact than previously published for the measure chosen.
The Root Cause Champion award recognizes an organization that has brought together cross-sector community leaders and stakeholders (at any scale) to identify root causes of inequity, developed a plan for addressing those root causes, and identified a sustainability model that incentivizes and motivates the advancement of that effort.
The Governance Gold Medalist award recognizes an organization that has led the effort to build or significantly refine a governance model for data sharing and health improvement across sectors, between health care and community-based organizations, between for profit and non-profit organizations. The awardee has built an inclusive governing table for their organization and has transparent governance practices.
Megan Gibbs, Director of Customer Success, MiHIN
The Emerging Leader award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated leadership, commitment to professional development, and collaborative skills with peers, colleagues, and community members. This rising leader is a top performer and is making significant contributions to their organization and community, and regularly engages in the Civitas network.
Jen Carter, Executive Director of Alliances, J2 Interactive
The Dedicated Mentor award recognizes an individual who has consistently empowered their team, industry peers, other leaders, students and/or community members to encourage engagement and career paths in community leadership, health improvement, policy, advocacy, interoperability, or technology.
Jaime Bland, CEO & President, CyncHealth
The Leadership Excellence award recognizes an individual who has brought together a community, organized other leaders around a common goal, and made a substantial impact on a community, region, state, or the nation, going above and beyond their normal duties.
Civitas and its leadership team have been honored by peer organizations, government agencies, and industry leaders for their role in shaping the future of health information exchange, data governance, and person-centered care.
Accolades include:
These honors reflect the collective work of our members and partners—and underscore Civitas’ position as a trusted voice in the national health improvement landscape.
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