Best Health & Well Being Initiative

Best Health & Well Being Initiative – “Helping People Live Healthier Lives” sponsored by Optum

This award offers applicants the opportunity to receive recognition for initiatives or projects that help people live healthier lives. Applications in this category should be able to demonstrate something new, where they have raised the bar or where they have gone above and beyond that impacts the health & wellbeing of people in the community. It can be a one-off initiative or an ongoing strategy.

Examples: Home care; Fitness; Support for mental or physical health (Pieta, Samaritans, Blood Bikes NW etc.); Demonstration of innovation to augment health and wellbeing in the community; Counselling Services; Health food/diet; Medical devices.