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The Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award 2022 Application
The Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award from the AHA Rural Health Services honors the leadership team who has guided their hospital and community through transformational change on the road to health care innovation. The team will have displayed outstanding leadership and responsiveness to the community’s health needs and demonstrated a collaborative community process that has led to measurable outcomes.
The team will receive a stipend for 2022 of $2,000 to defray the team's expenses to attend the 2023 AHA Rural Leadership Conference in San Antonio, TX. The AHA will work with the honoree and finalists to provide national recognition of their achievements through media releases and announcements and feature stories in our national media channels.
Applications must be submitted by Aug. 31, 2022. Award recipient and finalists are notified in November.
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