Recognize Your Hospital Team: 2026 CHA Annual Awards Open for Submissions

Is there a program, an individual, or a team at your hospital whose story deserves to be told and recognized?

The Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) is now accepting submissions for the 2026 CHA Annual Awards through early January.  By submitting an entry, hospitals can spotlight the work that their teams are doing every day to improve health outcomes across Connecticut and give colleagues an opportunity to be publicly recognized for the difference they’re making.

This cycle, CHA has implemented an earlier and extended timeline for the CHA Annual Awards submission process.  Hospitals and health systems are invited to submit entries for the 2026 Connecticut’s Hospital Community Service Award and the 2026 John D. Thompson Award for Excellence in the Delivery of Healthcare Through the Use of Data through Wednesday, January 7, 2026.  Winners will be honored at the CHA Annual Meeting in June 2026.

Entries are being accepted through the CHA website.  Entrants must be logged in to their CHA account to access the award submission webpages, which are linked below.  For instructions on how to set up an account if you have not yet, click here.

• The Community Service Award recognizes a hospital or health system that has made an outstanding contribution to its community, particularly for a program or service targeted toward a specific segment of a hospital or healthcare system’s community.  Click here to view the Community Service Award submission page and entry form
• The John D. Thompson Award is awarded to a hospital or health system for improvement in patient care through a modification of process substantiated by the use of data.  Click here to view the John D. Thompson Award submission page and entry form

The submission deadline for both awards is Wednesday, January 7, 2026.

Information on the 2026 Healthcare Heroes Award will be shared in January 2026.

If you have any questions regarding the awards, please contact Nicole Rall at (203) 294-7213 or rall@chime.org or Christina Guessferd at (203) 887-3206 or guessferd@chime.org.

Click here to learn more about the CHA Annual Meeting and the 2025 award recipients.