NAPH Safety Net Awards
For more than 20 years, NAPH has sponsored a member awards program - the NAPH Safety Net Awards - to recognize member hospitals and health systems for implementing creative, successful programs and activities that boost patient care and meet community needs. Award categories vary from year to year — more than 200 programs have been recognized as outstanding examples in areas such as quality improvement, patient safety, reducing health disparities, workforce improvement, using health information technology and improving the health of the community.
Each spring, members are invited to submit applications. Winners are selected by a committee of member experts and are recognized during NAPH's Annual Conference.
NAPH Strategic Partners
- California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems
Established in 1983, CAPH is a statewide trade association representing 19 public and not-for profit hospitals, academic medical centers and comprehensive health care systems working on the front lines of health care in California.
- National Public Health and Hospital Institute
The National Public Health and Hospital Institute is a private, nonprofit organization established in 1988 to address the major issues facing public hospitals, safety net organizations, underserved communities, and related health policy issues of national priority. Its membership includes the healthcare organizations that comprise the NAPH. The NPHHI board includes public and nonprofit sector leaders in health policy and service delivery.
- Ropes & Gray LLP
Attorneys at Ropes & Gray have represented NAPH since its formation in 1981, providing both general counsel services and highly specialized legislative and regulatory health care policy advice. The health care practice at Ropes & Gray is broad and deep, with a long history of representing public and safety net hospitals and academic medical centers on a wide array of healthcare and related issues including reimbursement, governance, academic affiliations, regulatory compliance and enforcement, corporate transactions and contracting, intellectual property, tax, antitrust, bond financing, and litigation.
- Safety Net Hospitals for Pharmaceutical Access
Safety Net Hospitals for Pharmaceutical Access (SNHPA) is an organization of over 500 public and private non-profit hospitals and health systems throughout the U.S. that participate in the Public Health Service 340B drug discount program. SNHPA, which was originally named the Public Hospital Pharmacy Coalition, was formed in 1993 to increase the affordability and accessibility of pharmaceutical care for the nation's poor and underserved populations.
- University HealthSystem Consortium
The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) is an alliance of 103 academic medical centers and 212 of their affiliated hospitals representing approximately 90% of the nation's non-profit academic medical centers.