Nominations Being Accepted for Healthcare Heroes Class of 2025

SPRINGFIELD — In the spring of 2017, BusinessWest and its sister publication, the Healthcare News, created a new recognition program called Healthcare Heroes. It was launched with the theory that there are heroes working across this region’s wide, deep, and all-important healthcare sector, and that there was no shortage of fascinating stories to tell and individuals and groups to honor. That theory has certainly been validated.

But there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of heroes whose stories we still need to tell. And that’s where you come in. Nominations for the class of 2024 are due Thursday, July 17, and we encourage you to get involved and help recognize someone you consider to be a hero in the Western Mass. region in one (or more) of these eight categories: Patient/Resident/Client Care Provider; Health/Wellness Administrator; Emerging Leader; Community Health; Health Educator; Innovation in Health/Wellness; Collaboration in Health/Wellness; and Lifetime Achievement.

Nominations can be submitted at businesswest.com/healthcareheroes/nominations.