CHA’s Annual Meeting to Take Place on June 13

The 2024 Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) Annual Meeting is just two weeks away.  CHA looks forward to welcoming leaders from Connecticut’s hospitals and health systems, state health officials, and community partners to celebrate this year’s award winners and hear from this year’s keynote speaker.

The winners of the 2024 Connecticut’s Hospital Community Service Award and the 2024 John D. Thompson Award for Excellence in the Delivery of Healthcare Through the Use of Data, as selected by judging panels, are as follows:

• Community Service Award: Norwalk Hospital’s Community Psychiatric Outreach Program
• Community Service Award: Yale New Haven Hospital’s Medical-Legal Partnership Project (MLPP)
• John D. Thompson Award: The Adult Kidney Transplant Program at Hartford Hospital

CHA thanks all those who submitted entries and shared their hospital’s outstanding work.  Congratulations to the winning entries.

In addition to the above awards presented to winners selected by the judging panels, the CHA Executive Committee has conferred two additional awards:

• Stewart Hamilton, MD, Distinguished Service Award: Presented to Stephen Frayne
• Service in Pursuit of Excellence Award: Presented to William (Bill) Hoey, Sr. posthumously

CHA’s Healthcare Heroes Award, which celebrates and recognizes the invaluable contributions of exceptional healthcare workers, both to their field and to the community at large, will be presented to a hero selected by each hospital.

All winners will be recognized at the Annual Meeting.

The keynote speaker for this year’s Annual Meeting is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, associate editor for The Washington Post, and television personality Jonathan Capehart.

As the associate editor for The Washington Post, Capehart writes a weekly column focusing on the intersection of social and cultural issues and politics and hosts the newspaper’s “Capehart” podcast and live roundtable show “First Look.”  He served as a member of The Washington Post’s editorial board until 2022.  He is also the anchor of MSNBC’s “Weekends with Jonathan Capehart” and delivers PBS NewsHour’s Friday evening political commentary segment “Brooks & Capehart.”  In addition to his work with MSNBC and The Washington Post, Capehart is a regular moderator of panels.

Capehart was deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News from 2002 to 2004 and served on that paper’s editorial board from 1993 to 2000.  In 1999, his 16-month editorial campaign to save the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem earned him and the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.

CHA’s 2024 Annual Meeting takes place on Thursday, June 13 at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville, Connecticut from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.  This year’s theme is Caring for Connecticut Together.

For more information about the 2024 CHA Annual Meeting, email educationservices@chime.org.