Winning Contest Entries
Explore a diverse array of entries that have participated in our contests over the years. These entries represent the incredible talent, creativity, and dedication of journalists and storytellers from various backgrounds and media platforms.
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- Health Policy (large)
Quality Paradox: Medicare Rewards Not Always Linked to Better Outcomes
In the fourth quarter of 2012, CMS released the penalties assessed hospitals with excessive 30-day readmission rates and its penalties…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Beth Kutscher’s 2013 Body of Work
This entry involves a wide range of work on the finance beat for our magazine. The reporter’s coverage of routine…
- 2013
No Award
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- Business (small)
Venture philanthropy: A new driver for research
Nonprofit foundations for diseases such as Parkinson’s, cystic fibrosis, and multiple myeloma are funding for-profit companies to research treatments and…
- 2013
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
The KPC Killer
My story was one of the first in-depth looks at a Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) outbreak at NIH’s hospital in…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Brown Kenya Medical Exchange Program
The 2-part series chronicles the work of Rhode Island physicians, medical students, and individuals who created and/or volunteer in the…
- 2013
No Award
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- Public Health (large)
Putting a Stop to OA
More than 27 million Americans have osteoarthritis. This story explored a new way of thinking about osteoarthritis, not just as…
- 2013
No Award
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- Public Health (large)
An ER Designed for Psych Patients
ideastream’s Anne Glausser visited a facility equipped to intervene quickly for those suffering psychiatric trauma – the psych ER.
- 2013
No Award
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- Business (large)
Spinouts Blossom In Shadow Of Northeast Ohio’s Healthcare Giants
The word spinout has long been associated with road hazards – you spin out in a snowstorm, or if you…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Could More Good Samaritan Laws Slow the Opioid Overdose “Epidemic”?
Fourteen states have Good Samaritan laws giving limited immunity to drug users who call 911 during an overdose, and one…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Anti-Vaccination Movement Causes a Deadly Year in the U.S.
From Taliban fighters to California soccer moms, those who choose not to vaccinate their children against preventable diseases are causing…
- 2013
No Award
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- Business (large)
Affordable Care Act…of Horror?
A witch, Darth Vader, and the Blues Brothers walk into a bar….and that’s no joke. About 40 health insurance brokers…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Express Scripts Drops Coverage of Some High-Cost Drugs
Mail-order pharmacies and hospitals attempt to rein in sky-high drug costs.
- 2013
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
Maternity’s Thin Line
Women giving birth in Ghana have a risk of dying 22 times that of a woman in a developed country.…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Don’t Feel Like Working Out? Your Dog Might
All this year, ideastream has been reporting on ways to combat obesity. The health effects of extra weight can be…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
When Cancer Rings Twice
In the feature “When Cancer Rings Twice,” the writer explores the topic of surviving cancer a second time. The story…
- 2013
No Award
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