Emergency Care Innovation Award of the Year

Application deadline is July 31, 2015.

The Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award is an annual competition sponsored by Urgent Matters, Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group. The award recognizes multidisciplinary emergency department-based teams who have implemented a process or strategy to improve patient, clinical, and operational outcomes and can demonstrate measureable assessment of its effectiveness.

Submissions must include at least one of the following innovation categories: safety and quality, flow and efficiency, care coordination, patient experience, and cost-consciousness.

One member of the winning team will present his or her team’s innovation at the Urgent Matters Conference to be held at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly on October 25 in Boston, Massachusetts.

More information about the award, including deadlines, eligibility requirements, and submission forms, is available online.