2026 Home Care and Hospice Award Nominations

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HCA is accepting nominations for the 2026 Annual Awards Program! If you have a peer, staff member, or colleague that you would like to nominate for an HCA Annual Award, please use the application below! To be considered for the 2026 Award Program, you must submit your nomination before February 1st. A summary of each award is provided below. Please read the summaries and then select a nominee for any of the four categories by completing the rest of the form. This is a great way to recognize your staff, your agency or an exceptional colleague.

Please submit a photograph of your nominee (or group) along with your application. You can do this through the online application, or by emailing it to Jenny Kerbein at jkerbein@hcanys.org.

PLEASE COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING NOMINATION FORM:

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* 1. SELECT AN AWARD CATEGORY

CARING AWARD
The Caring Awards recognize those who have exhibited exemplary compassion, skills and service and/or whose actions exemplify caring in the home care setting. This year, we will honor recipients in the following categories: an agency, a clinician, a para-professional, and a physician.

HOME CARE CHAMPION AWARD
This award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated a strong and model commitment to home care patients and agency partners. The awardee will have engaged in an exemplary fashion with home care providers on: care management at home (through effective care-transitions, primary care house-calls, home care-directed telehealth, and other means); specific community health interventions that directly involve collaboration with a home care agency; advocacy for the profession at any level; and/or other home care-supportive leadership roles.

TRAILBLAZER AWARD FOR QUALITY AND INNOVATION AWARD
The three pillars of the home care and hospice industry are to: improve patients’ experiences of care (including satisfaction); address the health of populations; and reduce per-capita costs in the health care system. This HCA award recognizes a home care or hospice provider agency, Managed Long Term Care plan or team that has implemented an innovative clinical model, workforce supports, patient or staff education program, or other initiative with improved outcomes in terms of client satisfaction, population health improvement, and/or cost reduction or avoidance.

RUTH F. WILSON AWARD
HCA’s highest honor, the Ruth F. Wilson Award, is given to a dedicated individual, who has significantly contributed to home care over their career. The award recognizes someone whose work has had a dramatic effect on the home care industry at large. The recipient will have strengthened the practice of the profession, raised the standards of quality and care for patients, or advanced the level of understanding and mutual cooperation among the home care community, legislators, federal and state agencies, health care providers and the public.

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* 2. NAME OF NOMINEE (Person being nominated for Award)

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