Health Care Leadership Awards
Health Care Leadership Awards
OHA each year presents three Health Care Leadership Awards to honor outstanding individuals and organizations whose achievements have enhanced and brought honor to Ohio hospitals.
Donald R. Newkirk Award
This award recognizes and honors an individual who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the health care field in Ohio. Named for the man who led OHA for 27 years, from 1962-1989, the award is presented to an individual with multiple years of health care service who has made a significant impact in his or her hospital, the local community and across the state of Ohio.
James R. Castle Distinguished Service Award
This award bears the name of OHA’s retired president and CEO Jim Castle and honors an individual whose professional attainments embody qualities of an outstanding leader or mentor for service to the community, or other special achievement.
Dr. Eli Crew Community Service Excellence Award
Named after OHA’s first president, Dr. Eli R. Crew, former superintendent of Dayton’s Miami Valley Hospital, this award recognizes an individual or organization who has served as a friend to hospitals and health systems and whose support of the health care industry reflects the public interest.
Health Care Leadership Awards Honorees
2024 Donald R. Newkirk Award - Michael Canady, MD, CEO (retired), Holzer Health System
Michael Canady, MD, MBA, CPE, FACS, FAAPL, FACHE, served as Holzer Health System’s chief executive officer from 2016 to 2023. Prior to being named CEO, he served as chief medical officer for the health system. He joined the Holzer team as chairman of the surgery department in 1996, serving for 11 years. He later served as surgical services director for the entire system for more than two years. Canady joined Holzer in 1995 following four years of service in the United States Navy. Canady joined the OHA Board of Trustees in 2019. He served as board chair in 2023, chair-elect in 2022 and as the secretary and treasurer in 2021.
2024 James R. Castle Distinguished Service Award - Maureen Corcoran (Columbus) director, Ohio Department of Medicaid
In January 2019, Governor Mike DeWine appointed Maureen Corcoran to assume responsibility as the Director of Medicaid. During her time in this role, the department has undertaken an ambitious agenda to support Governor Mike DeWine’s goal to advance the potential of all Ohioans, focusing on children and youth with complex behavioral health needs as his priority. Under his leadership, Corcoran has led an ambitious agenda to restructure the state’s 15-year-old managed care program, introducing a person-centric, population health approach to health care. Prior to joining the DeWine Administration, Corcoran was the President and Founder of Vorys Health Care Advisors, a health care policy consulting firm.
2024 Dr. Eli Crew Community Service Excellence Award - The Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare
The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare was formed in 2000 to protect access to the best quality healthcare for all Americans — 24/7/365. The Coalition represents the interests of more than 5,000 community, rural, children’s, teaching, public, religious, rehabilitation, behavioral health and long-term care hospitals, and their patients. It is a community of more than two million grassroots advocates who recognize that hospitals and health systems are the heart of 24/7 healthcare for the American people. It is currently focused on defending Medicare, funding rural health, holding corporate insurers accountable, protecting access to care and supporting workforce, among other important issues.