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National Business Group on Health Awards Programs

Awards for Innovation in Reducing Health Care Disparities
Award for Excellence and Innovation in Value Purchasing
Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles
Global Leadership in Corporate Health Award
Helen Darling Receives 2009 WorldatWork Keystone Award
2007 Behavioral Health Awards

Awards for Innovation in Reducing Health Care Disparities

By addressing health and health care disparities, employers are improving the value, quality and effectiveness of the services their employees receive through health care benefits and productivity programs. With the current economic challenges, it is important for employers to help keep their employees and dependents as healthy, engaged and productive as possible. The National Business Group on Health has established the Awards for Innovation in Reducing Health Care Disparities to recognize companies that are working to address these issues.

2011 Winners:
Aetna
American Express
H.J. Heinz
The Franciscan Clinic
Verizon
Wyndham Worldwide

For more information about the 2011 award winners, please click here.

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
2011 Michael Davis for his leadership and commitment to employee health, productivity, overall well-being, wellness and cost management
2010 Martín Sepúlveda, MD, for his leadership and vision in global corporate health and productivity and for his role as a driving force for making primary care the cornerstone of a reinvigorated health care system.
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

The coveted Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles awards program acknowledges and rewards National Business Group on Health member companies demonstrating creative, comprehensive and effective solutions that improve employee health, productivity and well-being. The Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles awards program, now in its seventh year, serves as a means of sharing successful interventions, strategies and services, and illustrates best practices that can be emulated by other companies. The focus and specific criteria for the award are updated annually with evidence-based standards that reflect the evolving field of workplace well-being and health promotion.

The Business Group realizes that recognizing Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles energizes the health and productivity debate and helps drive national policy.

Please click here to view the Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles website.

Global Leadership in Corporate Health Award

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

Congratulations to Pamela Hymel, MD, 2011 award recipient. Please click here to view the press release.

Please click here to view the press release for our 2010 award recipient Martín-J. Sepúlveda, MD.

Please click here to view the press release of our 2009 award recipient Wayne Burton, MD

For nomination forms or to learn more about the award visit http://www.acoem.org/globalleadershipaward.aspx .

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.

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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