Shine a light on your team’s achievements. Nominate an outstanding team or individual for a “Bright Lights” Award by July 14, 2023.
AFHTO’s “Bright Lights” Awards recognize AFHTO members’ leadership, outstanding work and the significant progress being made to improve the value interprofessional primary care teams across Ontario deliver.
There’s no better time to show what you can do.
“Bright Lights” Award recipients are:
- Innovators – making small changes for maximum impact to improve patient experience and outcomes
- Team Players – interprofessional teams, collaborators, and relationship builders
- Demonstrating Impact – can show how their work is benefitting the health care system
Awards will be presented at the AFHTO 2023 Conference Awards ceremony, which will be held at lunchtime on October 25, 2023.
Not sure if your team’s achievements merit recognition? Never submitted a nomination before? You can watch this 2016 webinar or view the slides for an overview of what reviewers are looking for and tips for writing a nomination.
Award Categories
Awards will be presented in six categories this year:
- Using a population-based approach to provide care to the community
- Optimising teams’ capacity and creating efficiencies
- Organizing primary care to advance Ontario Health Teams
- Embedding mental health and home care in primary care
- Reducing unnecessary care (sponsored by Choosing Wisely)
- Special recognition for underrepresented teams
- In 2022 Wawa FHT won special recognition for providing vital access to virtual medical abortions for an urban population as a small rural team . This year all new/underrepresented primary care teams again can win an award for their contributions to Ontario’s healthcare system. The winner(s) will be selected based on the strength of their nomination to one of the five categories above.
Shine a light on your team - Make a nomination today:
- Review the nomination categories in advance (see nomination guide pg. 3 for descriptions).
- Review the nomination evaluation criteria (see nomination guide pg. 2 for details).
- Complete the online nomination form and send all supporting materials before July 14, 2023.
- Submit supporting documents to info@afhto.ca:
- 1-4 high-quality photos of nominees in png. or jpg. format to be featured at the Awards Ceremony on September 19th (Photos should be at least 500 KB in size.)
- Take a video (30-90 seconds long) with your smartphone and share with info@afhto.ca. We’ll be promoting nominations before the conference, so please consider providing an overview of your initiative as part of your nomination(optional).
- Signed statement of attestation to release photos for AFHTO use.
- Any supporting evidence and materials as appropriate.
- Deadline to submit photos and video is July 28, 2023.
We look forward to seeing your nominations and recognizing ALL the excellent work being done!