Healthcare Transformation Awards

Healthcare Transformation Awards recognizes employers, providers or other organizations that drive meaningful change in the healthcare marketplace, including improving quality, affordability and accessibility. The recipients are chosen by The Alliance Board of Directors and are typically recognized at The Alliance’s Spring Symposium.

The Alliance 2024 Annual Meeting

Healthcare Transformation Awards Criteria

Healthcare Transformation Award recipients must demonstrate their commitment to promoting effective change in the healthcare marketplace based on one or more of the following criteria:

  • High-Value Healthcare: Is taking action to significantly improve the quality and/or affordability of healthcare.
  • Transparency: Is achieving significant gains in the availability and/or use of meaningful information to compare price and quality.
  • Payment Reform: Is developing, testing, or implementing value-based payment approaches to encourage high-quality, affordable care.
  • Provider Network Design: Is developing, testing or implementing approaches to make high-value healthcare providers easily accessible to employees.
  • Benefit Plan Design: Is developing, testing or implementing approaches to support the appropriate use of high-value providers and treatments by consumers.

Congratulations to the 2025 Recipients!

The 2025 Healthcare Transformation Award recipients were announced at The Alliance Spring Symposium on April 23, 2025.

Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Gamber Johnson

Previous Recipients

2024

The Alliance chose to suspend the Healthcare Transformation Awards for 2024 as the organization transitions to recognizing recipients annually at the Spring Symposium event.

2021

Unfortunately, The Alliance chose to suspend the Healthcare Transformation Awards for 2021.

2017

Gunderson Health System

John Nygren, Wisconsin State Representative

Open Notes, Catherine DesRoches

Miniature- Precision Components

Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ)

2016

Beaver Dam Community Hospital

The Leapfrog Group

Natasha Plank-Ottum, CEO of Plank Enterprises

Valerie Shields, Stoughton, WI

Webcrafters Inc.

2015

Dianne Kiehl, “Driver of Meaningful Change“, Executive Director, The Business Health Care Group

QualityPath Designated Hospitals and Doctors

SMARTCare

  • Dr. Thomas Lewandowski
  • Dr. Anthony DeFranco
  • Dr. Tim Bartholow