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Awards and Contests

Creative Arts Contest

Winners of the 2012 Creative Arts Contest were announced on November 5, 2012 at NHPCO’s Clinical Team Conference.

View the winning entries.

Advancing End-of-Life Care Access Award

The Advancing End-of-Life Care Access Award recognizes provider initiatives that have significantly increased the type, scope, or range of services offered to and used by a traditionally underserved population. 

Volunteers are the Foundation of Hospice Award

2012 Nomination Information Click here

2011 Honorees. Learn more about the following 2011 recipients:

  • Bettye Zowarka, a volunteer with Haven Hospice – Gainesville, FL.
  • Marlys Pillatzke, a volunteer with Rice Hospice – Willmar, MN.
  • Bansai Savla, a volunteer with Suncoast Hospice in Clearwater, Florida.

Circle of Life Awards

Applications for the 2013 Circle of Life Awards: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care are now available at aha.org/circleoflife. If you have an innovative palliative and/or end-of-life care program, please consider completing this application.  If you have submitted or previewed the application in the past, please review the newly-revised application. Questions and data requests have been significantly streamlined.  For any questions on the award or the 2013 application, please email circleoflife@aha.org.

The awards are currently supported, in part, by the California HealthCare Foundation, based in Oakland, California, and the Archstone Foundation.  Major sponsors of the awards are NHPCO and the National Hospice Foundation, the American Hospital Association, the Catholic Health Association.  The awards are cosponsored by The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the National Association of Social Workers, with additional support from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.

In 2012, up to three organizations will win Circle of Life Awards; additional organizations may receive Citations of Honor. Awards and citations will be presented at the American Hospital Association Health Forum Summit, July, 2012. 

Read NHPCO's press release about the 2011 award recipients.

Distinguished Researcher Award (Sponsored by NHPCO)

  • The Distinguished Researcher Award recognizes an outstanding body of research that has contributed to the enhancement of hospice and palliative care. Learn more about the award criteria and recipients of this award.