Call for Nominations: 2025 Marie-Louise Ansak Award

The National PACE Association (NPA) Awards Committee invites you to submit a nomination for the 2025 Marie-Louise Ansak Award. The award distinguishes a PACE employee who exemplifies the ideals of Marie-Louise Ansak, the founder of PACE. In 1971, working as a consultant to the Chinatown-North Beach Health Care Planning and Development Corporation, Ansak completed a feasibility study recommending that housing and community services be pursued as an alternative to a neighborhood nursing home. On Lok was founded with a $2,000 federal grant. With creativity, foresight and dedication, Ansak was instrumental in directing and shaping On Lok from a small day health center into a nationally acclaimed model of community-based long-term care for the frail elderly. The Marie-Louise Ansak Award recognizes the ingenuity, hard work and sacrifice of an individual PACE program employee who has worked to improve the quality of life for one or more frail older persons during the past year.


Nomination Criteria: Eligible nominees must be members of a PACE organization and meet the following criteria:

• demonstrated unselfishness, originality, innovation and creativity;
• enhanced the PACE program, interdisciplinary team and participants;
  made a difference in the life of one or more PACE participants;
• epitomized the concept of “team player”; and
• have served or currently serve in a direct caregiver role.

Each organization may nominate one individual.


Nomination Deadline: August 8

Please complete the following form by Aug. 8. The award recipient will be honored on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Leadership and Awards Luncheon during the 2025 NPA Annual Conference in New York, NY.