Nominations sought for Reid’s inaugural 2025 Advanced Practice Provider of the Year Award

Reid Health is announcing a new annual award to honor an advanced practice provider (APP). The Advanced Practice Provider of the Year Award will shine a spotlight on the exceptional contributions of APPs across the health system.

Nominations for the award open today, June 4. APPs include:

• Audiologists (AuD)
• Certified Nurse Midwives (CNM)
• Nurse Practitioners (NP)
• Physician Assistants (PA)
• Podiatrists (DPM)

The public is invited to submit nominations for the 2025 APP of the Year. The award is open to Reid-employed APPs who consistently live out the mission of Reid Health, demonstrate excellence in practice, and serve as role models for their peers.

Nominees must demonstrate one or more of the following qualities or achievements:

• A combined commitment to clinical quality (in medical knowledge, discernment, and practice) along with genuine compassion, sensitivity, and a caring attitude in dealing with patients, patients' families, and colleagues, and/or
• A leader and/or initiator of programs and services resulting in improvement in quality of health or life within Reid's service area, and/or
• Consistently inspirational, encouraging, and helpful to colleagues, hospital staff, patients, and others in efforts to prevent or to alleviate illness or injury, and to enhance the quality of healthcare in Reid's service area.

Nominations can be made at the online form and will be accepted through Sunday, June 22.

The Advanced Practice Provider of the Year Award will be presented at a special event for APPs on Thursday, Sept. 25 at Forest Hills Country Club in Richmond.