Arcadia Awards Honor Healthcare Leaders for Impact

BOSTON, Nov. 11, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Arcadia, the leading healthcare platform powering outcomes, has announced the winners of its annual Arcadia Awards, which recognize organizations driving measurable impact through the innovative use of data and technology in value-based care. The 2026 Arcadia Award Winners span five categories, each highlighting different aspects of excellence in healthcare transformation.

Innovation in Action: Seattle Children’s Care Network, a clinically integrated network based in Washington, launched a six-week tournament-style performance improvement initiative. By standardizing data from more than 20 EHR environments, the network created matchups between practices across three two-week sprints focused on improving well-child visit scheduling, HPV vaccination for adolescents, and developmental and autism screening. After just six weeks, the network saw a 10.6% improvement over baseline, with the HPV sprint driving a 18% to 19% increase in eligible adolescents despite declining immunization trends. This model succeeded in a highly fragmented, multi-vendor, multi-payer environment, serving as a repeatable blueprint for distributed provider networks.

Champions for Change: Ochsner Health and Guidehealth, a healthcare technology company, were named joint winners in the Champions for Change category. The teams collaborated to intervene earlier and close care gaps by better understanding where the biggest opportunities existed. By performing an observed-to-expected analysis, Ochsner Health and Guidehealth quantified the opportunity and built a targeted, data-driven CHF management strategy. The measurable difference was clear, with system readmissions falling from 18.8% to 17.18% year to date, hospital admissions decreasing by 9.75 admissions per 1,000 patients, and system length of stay dropping 5.4%, from 4.47 to 4.23 days. The team also prioritized nephrology care for Stage 3 and 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, increasing CKD education visits by approximately 320%, from 112 to 470, and working toward a goal of 80% of Stage 4 members being seen by nephrology. Together, the CHF and CKD programs generated more than $5 million in measurable financial impact, demonstrating the value of coordinated, data-driven interventions that improved outcomes, expanded access to specialty care, and reduced avoidable utilization across the population.

Transformational Excellence: The Pediatric Health Network, a clinically integrated network serving the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region, recognized that data discrepancies were affecting quality measure performance and set out to fix that. The team worked on three fronts: pairing data validation with annual practice performance reviews to identify data gaps and opportunities for improvement; working with practices and EHR vendors to create and implement best-practice workflows; and partnering with Arcadia to build standardized EHR connectors, a pediatric-focused attribution algorithm, stronger patient matching, and preventive care outreach. From 2022 to 2025, depression screenings rose from 25% to 70%, hepatitis B vaccines from 52% to 94%, and Childhood Immunization Status (Combo 10) from 41% to 64%. The network achieved best-in-class quality measure performance on their value-based care contracts for all payers. Additionally, the gains helped one payer move from a 3.5 Star to a 4.0 Star rating, significantly increasing payer revenue and driving sustainability.

Meaningful Momentum: Tandigm Health, a population health company serving the Greater Philadelphia region and parts of New Jersey, needed to move beyond retrospective reporting to proactively identify at-risk patients, prioritize interventions, and track actions across the entire population. Their goal was to identify and intervene with patients before a serious health event occurred. In 2026, the team launched a platform-based population health tool built on a dynamic patient registry and a risk stratification algorithm customized to its population. The model follows a simple arc: predict who will benefit, connect providers and care managers around a shared view, and act through referrals, care management enrollment, and outreach. To date, practices have reviewed and acted on nearly 70% of the patients identified in the registry, a sign of strong adoption across the network. Tandigm is now exploring ways to leverage this scalable framework to improve outcomes, expand access to care services, and further advance proactive population health management.

Advocate of the Year: Brett Bailey, Director of Clinical Analytics at Baptist Health, was named the inaugural Advocate of the Year, an award recognizing an individual who is an exceptional partner and champion for the value-based care community. Bailey has shown an ongoing commitment to advancing value-based care excellence, generously sharing his expertise and lessons learned to help peers across the community succeed.

Arcadia received 32 nominations representing 25 organizations through an open nomination process. A panel of healthcare leaders, including Amy Prestifilippo and Cheryl Harris of Advocare, Brett Bailey of Baptist Health, Desiree Brewer of Wellvana, and Susan Kopp of MVP Health Care, evaluated each entry in a blinded process. Arcadia selected Advocate of the Year. To learn more about the nominations and see the ways that Arcadia customers are tackling healthcare's most difficult challenges, download the 2026 Arcadia Awards eBook.

Arcadia is the most trusted healthcare platform powering outcomes, connecting and transforming complex healthcare data into trusted intelligence. Arcadia helps organizations act with clarity through analytics and responsible AI to achieve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. Built on a comprehensive data foundation spanning tens of millions of patient lives, Arcadia supports hundreds of organizations, including Aetna, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Ochsner Health, Rush Health, Merck, and the California Department of Health Care Services. Learn more at arcadia.io. Arcadia® is a trademark of Arcadia Solutions, LLC. All rights reserved.