8th Annual Forum for Improving Children’s Healthcare
Awards
Find out the recipient of the 2009 Bergman Award
With the Bergman Award, NICHQ annually recognizes an individual who has shown substantial leadership in advancing the quality and safety of healthcare for children. The award recipients have made significant contributions to improved quality and safety of healthcare for children through a sustained program and/or series of projects. Contributions have had a national impact or have been at a regional level but of national significance.
The NICHQ Bergman Award recognizes individuals whose work demonstrates the following characteristics:
- Visionary leadership
- Innovation
- Results oriented
- Patient and family focused
- Multidisciplinary
- Fostering collaborative efforts
- Focused on community
- Promoting equity in care and outcomes
- Systems oriented
The collective work of each award recipient contributes towards the development of a health system that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable for all patients and populations, particularly children.
The NICHQ Bergman Award is named in honor of David A. Bergman MD who serves as a NICHQ Board Member and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Bergman has been a longtime innovator in developing, testing and applying novel approaches to making the healthcare system more responsive to the needs of children and their families. The goal of this award is to recognize individuals whose work has substantially improved the quality of care for children in the United States.
