The Academy of International Mobile Healthcare Integration (AIMHI) Excellence in EMS Integration Awards celebrates and promotes high-performance, high-value EMS, its partners, and leaders.
Nominations for the 2025 Awards are open now through May 7, 2025.
Winners will be recognized at the AIMHI Board Meeting on June 21st, 2025, during the American Ambulance Association Conference & Trade Show June 22 – 24, 2025. They will also receive recognition on the AIMHI website and social media platforms.
Please see below for criteria for each specific award category.
Excellence in EMS Integration Award
External Award | Integration with EMS Agencies | Organizational Recipient
This award recognizes a non-EMS organization that has developed and implemented a partnership with EMS organizations that have demonstrated enhancement of patient experience of care, improved patient outcomes, or reduced the cost of healthcare.
Award Philosophy
Awards should be based on measurable data that sets a benchmark for others to follow. These awards could be geared to best practices that support AIMHI’s mission of transforming EMS care. Award winners should demonstrate clear approaches to transformation, well deployed processes that demonstrated cycles of learning and benchmark results in the top decile of EMS agencies.
Eligibility
Integrated Healthcare Networks
- Payers
- Hospital Systems
- Home Health Agencies
- Hospice Agencies
- Other EMS agency partners
Entry Criteria
- Nominator demographics and contact information.
- Nominee demographics and contact information
- Description of program
- Date of implementation
Judging Criteria
- Number of patients/members enrolled
- Utilization change
- Patient experience scores
- Other criteria/outcomes
- Demonstrates a clear approach to change, with system-based deployment (of process, procedure, etc.) and benchmark results.
Winning agencies should be learning organizations that are willing to share best practices.
Nomination Link: https://forms.office.com/r/6g9zpqTkHs
Excellence in Public Information or Education
EMS Internal or External Award | Communications/PR/Public Affairs | Organizational Recipient
This award recognizes an EMS or non-EMS organization that has developed and implemented an effective public information or education campaign designed to encourage patients, members, or the public to develop or maintain healthy lifestyles, or to more effectively utilize healthcare resources.
Benchmark results demonstrating a significant change in how the public integrates with EMS practices. Agencies that have a clear approach to motivating the public to partner with EMS and local hospitals in obtaining outcome-based results.
Award Philosophy
Awards should be based on measurable data that sets a benchmark for others to follow. These awards could be geared to best practices that support AIMHI’s mission of transforming EMS care. Award winners should demonstrate clear approaches to transformation, well deployed processes that demonstrated cycles of learning and benchmark results in the top decile of EMS agencies.
Eligibility
- EMS Agencies
- Integrated Healthcare Networks
- Payers
- Hospital Systems
- Home Health Agencies
- Hospice Agencies
- Other EMS agency partners
Entry Criteria
- Nominator demographics and contact information
- Nominee demographics and contact information
- Description of program
- Date of implementation
Judging Criteria
- Estimated program reach (number of impressions)
- Cost of the campaign
- Any data on changes in behavior as a result of the campaign
- Demonstrates a clear approach to change, with system-based deployment (of process, procedure, etc.) and benchmark results. Winning agencies should be learning organizations that are willing to share best practices.
Nomination Link: https://forms.office.com/r/jHMvdKZki6
Excellence in Value Demonstration or Research
EMS Internal or External Award | Reporting/Data Analytics | Organizational Recipient
This award recognizes an EMS or non-EMS organization that created and implemented an analysis of data and/or research project to demonstrate the value impact of the services provided by the organization. Examples could include:
- Distributed analytics relating to the cost and outcomes from innovative EMS delivery.
- Study published in a peer reviewed journal that demonstrates improved patient outcomes, patient safety, or reduced cost of care as the result of a change to a protocol or process
- Benchmark improvement in efficiency that demonstrates a reduction in cost, and/or increase in patient safety with outcome-based metrics that exceed 90% of the national average for favorable results.
Award Philosophy
Awards should be based on measurable data that sets a benchmark for others to follow. These awards could be geared to best practices that support AIMHI’s mission of transforming EMS care. Award winners should demonstrate clear approaches to transformation, well deployed processes that demonstrated cycles of learning and benchmark results in the top decile of EMS agencies.
Eligibility
EMS Agencies
Entry Criteria
- Nominator demographics and contact information
- Nominee demographics and contact information
- Description of data distributed and method of distribution
- Submission of published studies that meet award submission criteria
Judging Criteria
- Value demonstration of data distributed
- Publication Impact Factor (IF) or Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of the journal publishing the research
- Demonstrates a clear approach to change, with system-based deployment (of process, procedure, etc.) and benchmark results. Winning agencies should be learning organizations that are willing to share best practices.
Nomination Link: https://forms.office.com/r/AR6jUsKs5R
Leadership in Integrated Healthcare Award
EMS Internal or External Award | Individual Recipient
This award recognizes an individual who has made significant impact on the integration of EMS, or the advancement of the integration of EMS into the healthcare system.
Award Philosophy
Awards should be based on measurable data that sets a benchmark for others to follow. These awards could be geared to best practices that support AIMHI’s mission of transforming EMS care. Award winners should demonstrate clear approaches to transformation, well deployed processes that demonstrated cycles of learning and benchmark results in the top decile of EMS agencies.
Eligibility
- EMS agency leaders
- Healthcare system leaders
- Leaders from payer organizations
- Leaders from EMS or Healthcare Associations
Entry Criteria
- Nominator demographics and contact information
- Nominee demographics and contact information
- Description of the initiatives/activities of the nominee
- Description of the impact the nominee’s initiatives has on EMS integration
Judging Criteria
- Effort of the initiatives undertaken by the nominee
- Outcomes of the initiatives of the nominee
- Demonstrates a clear approach to change, with system-based deployment (of process, procedure, etc.) and benchmark results. Winning agencies should be learning organizations that are willing to share best practices.
Nomination Link: https://forms.office.com/r/xrEHGtKN7W
Advocacy in Integrated Healthcare Award
EMS External Award | Individual Recipient
This award recognizes a legislator or regulator who has made significant impact on the integration of EMS, or the advancement of the integration of EMS into the healthcare system.
Eligibility
- Legislators and regulators from all levels of government
Entry Criteria
- Nominator demographics and contact information
- Nominee demographics and contact information
- Description of the initiatives/activities of the nominee
- Description of the impact the nominee’s initiatives has on EMS integration
Judging Criteria
- Effort of the initiatives undertaken by the nominee
- Outcomes of the initiatives of the nominee
Nomination Link: https://forms.office.com/r/yS9UXQgQnQ
