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To encourage outstanding work from journalists furthering innovation in health care policy and management, The National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation (NIHCM Foundation) recognizes excellence in health care reporting and writing with two $10,000 awards. 

NIHCM Foundation awards prizes to the winning entry in the following two categories:

  • Health Care Article or Series from General Circulation Publications
  • Health Care Article or Series from Trade Publications

     


The 17th Annual NIHCM Foundation Health Care Print Journalism Awards

Definition:

Recognizing excellence in health care reporting and writing on the financing and delivery of health care and the impact of health care policy

Award and Prize:

A $10,000 prize will be presented to the winner at a dinner in Washington, DC on May 16, 2011.

Selection Criteria:

  1. New insights generated by the reporting
  2. Impact on health care policy
  3. Quality of reporting
  4. Relevance to one or both of the subject areas (financing and delivery of health care and/or the impact of health care policy)

Eligibility:

  1. Articles must originally have been published during the calendar year 2010.
  2. Entries will be accepted from all staff reporters and editors, as well as freelance writers for articles that appeared in a General Circulation or Trade Publication.
  3. Online articles will be accepted if produced and disseminated originally on the web in affiliation with a General Circulation or Trade Publication.
  4. Articles should be timely and produce new insights into health care financing and delivery or health care policy.

Application Process and Rules:

  1. Entries must be postmarked by February 15, 2011.
  2. Entries must include TWO copies EACH of:
    1. Completed ENTRY FORM
    2. Clear copy (8     ½ x 11 inches) of the article
    3. A written description of how the article is relevant to the subject areas and its impact; length not to exceed 100 words
    4. A brief biography of the author(s). Please include contact information for each author.
  3. A single topic series will be considered as one entry
  4. Limit of three (3) entries per author

The winning entry will be selected by an independent panel of journalists:

  • Ceci Connolly, Reporter, The Washington Post
  • John Iglehart, Founding Editor, Health Affairs
  • Clifton Leaf, former Executive Editor, Fortune Magazine
  • Alan Murray, Executive Editor, Online, The Wall Street Journal; Panelist, Washington Week in Review, PBS
  • Jeff Nesmith, former Writer, Cox Newspapers
  • Fred Schulte, Senior Reporter, Huffington Post Investigative Fund 

Entries should be submitted by mail/delivery or email to:

Nancy Chockley, President and CEO
NIHCM Foundation
1225 19th Street, NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036

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Contact NIHCM:

Main number: 202-296-4426
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Congratulations to the Winners of NIHCM Foundation's 16th Annual   Health Care Print Journalism Awards

General   Circulation

Winner:

Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, “The Cost Conundrum"  Click here  to view Dr. Gawande's comments.

Runner-up:

John Fauber, Susanne Rust, Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Side Effects” (series): 1/11/09, 1/12/09, 1/25/09, 2/27/09, 4/28/09,  6/21/09, 8/9/09, 8/16/09, 11/8/09, 12/24/09

Finalists:

  1. Suzanne Bohan, Sandy Kleffman, Oakland Tribune and other Bay Area News Group newspapers, “Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters” (series): 12/6/09, 12/7/09, 12/13/09,  12/14/09
  2. Debbie Cenziper, The Washington Post, “Wasting Away” (series): October-December, 2009
  3. Mary Pat Flaherty,  Gilbert Gaul, Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post,Fatal Flights” (series): August 21-23, 2009
  4. Mike Giglio, Houston Press, “You Want a Piece of Me?
  5. David Goldhill, The Atlantic, “How American Health Care Killed My Father
  6. Scott Hiaasen, The Miami Herald, “Inside Pill Mills” (series): 4/5/094/6/094/27/095/1/097/1/0910/31/0911/20/0912/30/0912/30/09 
  7. Avery Johnson, The Wall Street Journal, “Drug Firms See Poorer Nations as Sales Cure"
  8. Sally Kestin, Peter Franceschina, John Maines, Sun Sentinel, Trust Betrayed” (series): September 27-29, 2009
  9. The New York Times staff (Gardiner Harris, Gina Kolata, Andrew Pollack and Natasha Singer), The New York Times, Forty Years War” (series): 4/24/09, 6/28/09, 7/17/09, 8/3/09, 8/28/09,  9/2/09, 9/16/09, 10/25/09, 11/13/09, 12/19/09, 12/29/09  

Trade Publications

Winner:

Joe Carlson, Modern Healthcare, “Trauma to the System," (sidebar) 

Honorable Mention:

Nancy Watzman, Bill Allison, Sarah Dorsey, Luke Rosiak, Noah Kunin, Kerry Mitchell, Anu Narayanswamy, Sunlight Foundation, “The Heart of the Matter: How Congress and Special Interests Kept Crucial Clinical Trial Data Secret

Finalists: 

  1. Geri Aston, Hospitals & Health Networks, “Clinical Management” (series):  FebruaryMay,  June, October,  November, December,  2009           
  2. Geri Aston, Hospitals & Health Networks,Comparative Effectiveness: Why It Matters to You
  3. Jean DerGurahian, Modern Healthcare, “Safety Crusaders” (series): 9/7/0911/2/09 
  4. Allan R. Gold, Diana Farrell, Eric S. Jensen, Bob Kocher, McKinsey Quarterly, “Why Americans pay more for health care
  5. Carrie Johnson, Bill Steiger, The Physician Executive Journal, “Bad Blood: Doctor-Nurse Behavior Problems” (series): November/December 2009
  6. Howard Larkin, Hospitals & Health Networks, “Mass Appeal?
  7. Jill Wechsler, Pharmaceutical Executive, “Go Go Generics"
  8. Matthew Weinstock, Hospitals & Health Networks,A Model of Efficiency

 

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