The MHSCN Awards of Excellence are returning for 2021! The awards honor exceptional efforts in health care strategic planning, marketing, public relations and communications from the past year.

Award submissions will be accepted in five categories:

• Best in Public Relations: This category recognizes projects designed to build and maintain relationships with various publics and create a positive image or reputation for the organization within its broader community. MHSCN members and nonmembers are eligible to submit entries in this category.
• Best in Marketing: This category recognizes projects that used outreach strategies to urge members of a specific target market to take a specific action. MHSCN members and nonmembers are eligible to submit entries in this category.
• Best in Communications: This category recognizes projects that involved designing resonant messages, delivering them to your intended audiences through the right channels, and receiving feedback. MHSCN members and nonmembers are eligible to submit entries in this category.
• MHSCN Professional of the Year: This category honors a health care communicator, marketer or public relations professional who has demonstrated exceptional skills and leadership in health care communications, marketing or public relations. To be considered for the award, the nominee must be a MHSCN member. Self-nominations are welcome.
• MHSCN Rising Star: This category honors a health care communicator, marketer or public relations professional in the first five years of their career in health care communications, marketing or public relations who demonstrates strong abilities and growing expertise in health care communications. To be considered for the award, the nominee must be a MHSCN member. Self-nominations are welcome.

The entry fee is $50 for the first submission and $25 for each additional submission from the same individual.

Awards will be presented at the MHSCN Fall Conference.

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