Innovation Award 2025 Nomination Form

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Eligibility and Selection Criteria

The 2025 CQCO Quality and Innovation (QI) Awards welcome applications from any institution, practice or organization that provides cancer prevention activities or cares for people being treated for or living with cancer in Ontario.

The Innovation Award is presented to a program or initiative that best demonstrates these criteria:

Originality and boldness
Improved outcomes
Sustainability
Economic benefits
Meaningful impact on patients, families, resources, and processes

The QI Awards define innovation as new and unique processes, products or organizations that are bold, experimental, and far-reaching. The goal of innovation should be to improve the process, organization, or product.

The nomination must show a plan for evaluation or measurable evidence for how the innovative initiative improved outcomes.

Upon preliminary review of your nomination, we may recommend that your submission be considered for a different award category.

Project Details and Contact Information

Name of initiative, project, or program:

Organization:

Ontario Health Region:

Year initiative was developed:

Name(s) of initiative team member(s):

Name of primary contact person:

Email of primary contact person:

Your name (if different from above):

Has the initiative been submitted for the QI Awards in previous years? If so, which year(s)?

Note: You must let the nominees know that you are submitting the nomination on their behalf. By allowing themselves to be nominated, the nominees acknowledge and agree that – if they are selected for the award their names and initiative will appear on the Quality and Innovation Awards Winners page. We may also feature winners on Ontario Health social media platforms.

Executive Summary

1. Provide a summary of the entire submission including highlights of the initiative and why it should be considered for the Innovation Award. Please include highlights from the Background Information and Outcomes sections. (max. 500 words)

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Background Information

2. Describe the problem that led to the implementation of the innovative initiative and how the initiative addresses the problem. Please also include: Description of the initiative. Who is the target audience (patients, clients, system, etc.)? When and how was it implemented? How long was the process? Is there a strategy in place to measure quantity or quality of the initiative? (max. 500 words)

Outcomes

3. In what way is the initiative innovative, new, ground-breaking, bold, experimental, or far-reaching? Describe how it changed the way projects, tasks, duties, or work is accomplished (end state). Has it been adapted from current healthcare system processes? (max. 500 words)

4. Describe the initiative’s results and provide specific examples of its impact on patients and families, healthcare providers and the system (i.e., value for money). (max. 500 words)

5. Describe how the initiative is promoted and applied throughout the organization. Include specific efforts undertaken to share with others. What tools and processes are in place to sustain it or to ensure dissemination and uptake in other regions? Is it scalable across the province? (max. 500 words)

I/We give Ontario Health permission to publish this submission, in whole or in part, to the Quality and Innovation Awards web page to share, educate and promote quality initiatives across Ontario.

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Submitting Nomination

You will have an opportunity to review your completed application form before you submit it. Once you have uploaded supporting documents, select Next to go to the review screen.

To see previous award recipients, visit Quality & Innovation Awards Recipients.

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