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Living the Mission Awards:
Nomination Process
IEHP’s Living the Mission Awards honor providers, community partners, and entities whose actions and contributions embody IEHP’s Mission, Vision, and Values. The nomination window opens each year from November 1 through January 31.
Four different Living the Mission Awards are conferred each year at the IEHP Annual Mission Conference:
Nomination Categories
Inspire Award
This award honors a provider, entity, or community partner that exemplifies IEHP’s Mission, “We heal and inspire the human spirit.” This is demonstrated by:
- Having compassion that extends to all the people they serve
- Investing time and energy in their community through acts of service
- Inspiring and motivating others to serve and to be their best
- Being a servant-leader that others want to follow and emulate
Vibrant Health Award
This award honors a provider, entity, or community partner that exemplifies engagement with the well-being and joyful life of the residents of the Inland Empire. This is demonstrated by:
- Passionate participation in raising awareness of and reducing the social determinants of ill-health
- Actively supporting core individual and community needs such as food security, shelter, and safety
- Working to ensure health and well-being are equitably experienced across our diverse communities
Optimal Care Awards (Two)
This award honors a provider or entity that exemplifies world-class care and outcomes in preventive care, chronic care, or hospital care. This is demonstrated by:
- Clinical care and outcomes that exceed national benchmarks and consistently follow best practice
- Care that is seamlessly coordinated from prevention through the whole care continuum
- Care that is built on cultural humility and respectful, holistic, human-centered experiences
Creativity & Innovation Award
This award honors a provider, entity, or community partner that exemplifies the courage to “break the mold” to address the health concerns of the residents of the Inland Empire. This is demonstrated by:
- Daring to experiment and do something to truly shift the paradigm
- Innovating to improve care for our communities
Living the Mission Award Recipients 2025
Inspire Award
Dr. Pardis Amirhoushmand
Dr. Pardis Amirhoushmand, a board-certified clinical psychologist with more than 25 years of experience, and her Ontario practice, The Autism Center.
Vibrant Health Award
Cedar House Life Change Center
Cedar House Life Change Center, a Bloomington-based residential treatment program for individuals battling addiction.
Creativity & Innovation Award
Renewing Hope Family Counseling Center, Inc.
Renewing Hope Family Counseling Center, Inc., which offers mental health and therapeutic support and treatment services for all ages.
Optimal Care Awards
Corona Regional Hospital Medical Center
For the first time, two Optimal Care Awards were awarded by the health plan, selecting one provider and one hospital care organization to receive the honor
Corona Regional Hospital Medical Center, a 259-bed facility specializing in acute hospital and rehabilitation care.
Dr. Sushil Anand
Dr. Sushil Anand, co-founder of American Pediatrics and a board-certified pediatrician, with offices in Eastvale, Corona and Upland.
Living the Mission Awards 2024
Inspire Award
Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy on engaging at-risk youth
Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy’s community resource center in downtown San Bernardino offers programs for at-risk youth, including workforce development, job skills, mentoring, gang intervention and the largest initiative, mental health. Representatives also engage with young people and their families in their neighborhoods as well as at schools, juvenile detention centers and apartment buildings.
These multi-pronged efforts received recognition with the Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) 2024 Inspire Award, which “honors a provider, entity or community partner that exemplifies our Mission, ‘We heal and inspire the human spirit.’”
Vibrant Health Award
Neighborhood Healthcare on helping the most vulnerable
The all-encompassing services offered by Neighborhood Healthcare – along with the organization’s commitment to serve in the IE – were among the reasons it received the IEHP 2024 Vibrant Health Award, which “honors a provider, entity or community partner that exemplifies engagement with the well-being and joyful life of Inland Empire residents.”
Creativity & Innovation Award
Healthcare in Action on enhancing care for the unsheltered
Healthcare in Action (HIA) is a nonprofit organization and associated medical group that uses mobile clinics to reach unhoused people.
Since 2021, HIA has treated over 6,000 patients with comprehensive medical care, behavioral health care and substance abuse support as well as helped house over 450 individuals.
These impacts and more are among the reasons HIA received the Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) 2024 Creativity & Innovation Award, which “honors a provider, entity and community partner that exemplifies the courage to ‘break the mold’ in pursuit of innovative ways to address the health concerns of Inland Empire residents. This is demonstrated by daring to experiment and do something to truly shift the paradigm.”
Optimal Care Award
Fluent in care: San Bernardino doctor makes meaningful connections
Dr. Romeo Jamil Samouh wins the Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) 2024 Optimal Care Award for his above-and-beyond service to patients at his family medical practice in San Bernardino County.
As an immigrant himself, Dr. Samouh knows what it’s like to navigate a new country and new experiences, which is why he and his team ensure care is available in various languages.
Living The Mission Awards 2023
Vibrant Health Award
Overflow Farms on growing hope in food banks
Creativity & Innovation Award
DAP Health leaves no person behind in the right to health care
Optimal Care Award
Indio’s Dr. Maria Nieves Gutierrez-Go puts her heart into service
Living The Mission Awards 2022
Inspire Award
Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino
Inspire Award
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