HIMSS names Davies Award winners
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) honored its 2009 Davies Award recipients this week in Washington, D.C.
The awards go to hospitals that are leaders in EHR implementation in the ambulatory, organizational, community health and public health categories. This year the award winners included:
The awards go to hospitals that are leaders in EHR implementation in the ambulatory, organizational, community health and public health categories. This year the award winners included:
- HIMSS Organizational Davies Award: MultiCare Health System, an integrated not-for-profit organization in Tacoma, Wash. with four hospitals, including a children’s hospital, primary and urgent care clinics, home health and hospice programs serving four counties.
- HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award: Virginia Women’s Center, central Virginia’s largest provider of individualized obstetric and gynecologic care, with 26 physicians and 12 nurse practitioners at five clinical sites. Subspecialties include urology, clinical research, mammography, bone health, nutrition counseling and mental-health counseling.
- Community Health Davies Award: Urban Health Plan and Heart of Texas. Urban Health Plan is a network of federally qualified community health centers based in the South Bronx and Queens that was founded in 1974. Its mission is to improve the health status of underserved communities with 13 practice sites that are within the highest 2 percent of U.S. counties in poverty. Heart of Texas is a Federally Qualified Health Center, supporting the oldest family medicine residency west of the Mississippi and serving the target population of 90,200 residents of McLennan County, Texas, living at or below 200 percent of Federal Poverty Guidelines.
- Public Health Davies Award: The Boston Public Health Commission and Denver Public Health, a division within Denver Health and Hospital Authority.