AvaPrize 2025

Celebrating Excellence in Virtual Care

AvaPrize is AvaSure’s annual awards program honoring the trailblazers transforming healthcare through virtual care. Join us in recognizing the individuals and organizations who are advancing patient and staff safety, empowering care teams, and driving innovation across the care continuum. 

Award Categories

In 2025, AvaPrize continues to highlight those who are making a real impact—on the front lines, behind the scenes, and across entire health systems. The program celebrates not only outcomes, but also the collaboration, operational excellence, and dedication it takes to deliver safer, smarter care.

Outstanding Operational Excellence

Honors leaders/teams/caregivers who have optimized operational processes, improving efficiency and effectiveness through AvaSure.

Breakthrough Innovation Award

This award celebrates organizations that have demonstrated visionary leadership by implementing groundbreaking, innovative solutions that drive the future of virtual care.

Collaborative Excellence Award

Celebrates those who have excelled in fostering collaboration across departments, enhancing interdisciplinary teamwork and improving patient outcomes.

Rookie of the Year

This award honors a new AvaSure user who has quickly demonstrated outstanding impact and innovation in their virtual care program, setting a high standard for future success.

Centralized Care Champion

The Centralized Care Champion award honors organizations maximizing the AvaSure platform across multiple sites. Recognizing exceptional utilization of virtual care technology, this award celebrates innovation and excellence in enhancing operational efficiency and patient safety.

VA Excellence Award

Honoring VA Hospitals that lead in virtual care through the AvaSure platform, this award recognizes innovation and excellence, setting a benchmark for the highest standards of care within the VA healthcare system.

Virtual Safety Attendant Superstars

This award honors an exceptional Virtual Safety Attendant (VSA) who consistently goes above and beyond in their role, demonstrating outstanding dedication to patient safety and care.

2024 AvaPrize winners

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 AvaPrize awards for setting the standard in virtual care innovation!

Rookie of the Year

Summit Pacific Medical Center 
Summit Pacific’s Acute Care Department embraced virtual sitting with resilience and teamwork, steadily increasing utilization and improving patient outcomes. In 2025, they expanded their impact through collaboration with Mason General Hospital, extending virtual care services across institutions.

Breakthrough Innovation Award

Children’s Wisconsin
Children’s Wisconsin integrated ceiling-mounted devices into their new PICU, laying the groundwork for a future-ready care model. Their phased rollout—from visualization to virtual sitting and now virtual nursing—demonstrates bold leadership in pediatric care.

Outstanding Operational Excellence Award

Scripps Health
The Central Patient Monitoring Team at Scripps Health advanced virtual care through expansion, policy refinement, and workflow optimization. Their collaborative approach reduced sitter use and is shaping monitoring in new facilities under construction.

Centralized Care Champion Award

CommonSpirit Health
CommonSpirit centralized its enterprise-wide virtual care strategy into a single Phoenix hub, embedding analytics, enhancing change management, and reducing falls and sitter cases—while expanding services across its system.

Collaborative Excellence Award

Tuscon Medical Center
Tucson Medical Center’s Virtual Nursing Program exemplifies collaboration, uniting IT teams, bedside nurses, and virtual nurses to create a model of care that improves patient education, support, and overall experience.

VA Excellence Award

Tennessee Valley Health System
Tennessee Valley strengthened staff training and patient engagement, directly preventing falls and boosting confidence. Their virtual sitters now play a vital role in ensuring safety and dignity for veterans.

Virtual Safety Attendant Superstar

Shereia Hill & Blue Ash Virtual Safety Companion Hub
Shereia Hill and her Blue Ash team elevated virtual safety operations across 19 hospitals by innovating staffing, improving handoffs, and fostering strong partnerships—boosting morale, retention, and patient safety.

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