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Meet the leaders, organizations and innovators improving health across the Capital Region
Healthcare in the Capital Region is growing more complex by the year. The population is expanding and aging. Demand is rising for everything from primary care and emergency services to cancer treatment, mental health support and highly specialized procedures. At the same time, hospitals and providers are managing workforce pressures, new technology and the constant challenge of making care easier to access and navigate.
Meeting those demands takes more than new buildings or equipment. It takes leaders who can make difficult decisions, organizations that can adapt and ideas that improve how care is delivered.
Business Report this year launched the Excellence in Healthcare Awards to recognize the people, institutions and innovations responding to those challenges across the region. This inaugural year’s honorees and finalists include emerging leaders building influence early in their careers, senior executives directing major investments and growth, and organizations working to better serve patients and families. They also highlight innovations that are helping clinicians diagnose conditions sooner, treat patients more precisely and offer options that were not available before.
Their work is varied, but the questions behind it are often the same: How can care reach more people? How can complicated systems work more effectively? And how can the region prepare now for the needs it will face next?
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
From mergers and growth to hurricanes and COVID, Edgar Silvey has guided the Baton Rouge Clinic through an era of transformation
COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD
Woman’s Perinatal Mental Health Unit is filling a gap that has cost families for generations
OUTSTANDING HEALTH ORGANIZATION FINALISTS
These organizations bring together services, specialists and community resources to simplify the patient journey
ACHIEVEMENT IN INNOVATION FINALISTS
Three innovations rethink how health problems are detected, treated and managed
EMERGING HEALTHCARE LEADER FINALISTS
Three rising leaders are rethinking care, operations and access
OUTSTANDING HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVE FINALISTS
These executives decide where healthcare grows, invests and changes next
OUTSTANDING PRACTITIONER FINALISTS
These physicians pair specialized expertise with a clear view of what patients actually need
