Living the Mission Awards

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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 Winners 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.’”

Learn more about the Living the Mission Awards and IEHP’s Mission Conference at https://missionconference.iehp.org

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.”

Learn more about the Living the Mission Awards and IEHP’s Mission Conference at https://missionconference.iehp.org

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.”

Learn more about the Living the Mission Awards and IEHP’s Mission Conference at https://missionconference.iehp.org

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.

Learn more about the Living the Mission Awards and IEHP’s Mission Conference at https://missionconference.iehp.org