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National Business Group on Health Awards Programs

Helen Darling Receives 2009 WorldatWork Keystone Award
Award for Excellence and Innovation in Value Purchasing
Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles
Global Leadership in Corporate Health Award
National Health System Patient Safety Leadership Award
2007 Behavioral Health Awards

Helen Darling Receives 2009 WorldatWork Keystone Award

The Keystone Award, bestowed by the WorldatWork Board of Directors, is the highest honor granted by the association to an individual or individuals in recognition of sustained contributions to the field of Total Rewards. Criteria include outstanding, sustained contribution to the field of compensation or benefits. A sustained contribution is either one that has a long-lasting effect or a series of positive contributions by the same individual over many years (a decade or more) or a career. The contributions recognized are the result of initiatives and actions by a single individual, not a team or organization. The individual being recognized is regarded by his or her peers as a leader in the field and a person of strong character and high integrity. WorldatWork doesn’t give out the Keystone Award every year. The person must truly stand out and be making significant steps to move the profession forward.

Award for Excellence and Innovation in Value Purchasing

Winners are individuals, organizations or programs that:

Encourage the efficient or cost-effective use of health care resources in addition to improving quality and affordability.
Encourage excellent practices that are started by or involve large employers; and
Have a demonstrated track record of increasing value in health care through superior purchasing practices or have developed approaches, methodologies and tools that enable outstanding health benefit management practices.

The Business Group wants to provide positive reinforcement for those people doing the right things in health care purchasing. We hope our award will motivate corporations to be more active in supporting creative and innovative value purchasing initiatives.

Prior Winners
2009 Catherine Baase, MD and Pamela Hymel, MD, for their leadership, innovation and vision in making advances in the extremely important health and productivity field.
2008 Wayne Burton, MD, Dee Edington, Ph.D., Ron Goetzel, Ph.D., for establishing the theoretical and quantitative foundation for what we know as health and productivity or the total health management approach to health care and benefits.
2007 Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University and Medical Institutions, for her development of the business case to drive patient-centered primary care in health care delivery reform.
2006 HealthPartners for their innovative programs that measure and reward quality health care including bundled measures
2005 Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, for his national leadership in addressing health systems performance, quality patient outcomes, and value purchasing issues over two decades
2004 PacifiCare Health Systems, for its plan with networks based on quality and efficiency
2003 Don Berwick, MD, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, for his pioneer work on patient safety and quality

Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles Awards

2009 Awards Program — 63 Winners Announced June 24, 2009

The Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles Award acknowledges and rewards those organizations that apply creative, comprehensive solutions to improving the health of employees; however, its most important purpose is to serve as a catalyst for action. These 63 companies, representing the full spectrum of the U.S. economy, demonstrate the strong employer commitment to workplace health and wellness programs. The Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles Award is open exclusively to members of the National Business Group on Health.

Please click here to review press announcements and program descriptions from previous winners.

For program descriptions for all award winners please click here.

Global Leadership in Corporate Health Award

To recognize outstanding achievements by individuals who implement programs that improve the health and productivity of the workforce, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) have introduced the Annual Award for Excellence in Corporate Health and Productivity — Global Leadership in Corporate Health Award.

The recipient of the 2009 Global Leadership in Corporate Heath Award is Wayne Burton, MD. Please click here to view the press release.

The National Health System Patient Safety Leadership Award

The National Health System Patient Safety Leadership Award, sponsored by the National Business Group on Health and the VHA Foundation, recognizes U.S. health systems for exemplary patient safety practices and performance. The 2009 National Health System Patient Safety Leadership Award was presented to Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems in Brewer, Maine (click on system name for short videos). For details on the award criteria please click here. To see the press release click here.

2007 Behavioral Health Awards: Employer Implementation & Best Practices

In 2007, the Behavioral Health Awards program recognized employers that developed, implemented, and evaluated innovative behavioral health benefits and programs to improve an employer's business operations and the health of beneficiaries. Five companies and six programs were honored. The award-winning programs address prevention, early intervention, treatment, disease management, return-to-work issues, and disability management. Award winning programs are featured as case-studies in an issue brief on employer innovation in behavioral health.

Click above for more information on the 2007 award winners.

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