Congratulations to the 2025 SHA Innovation Award recipients!
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 SHA Innovation Awards—an annual recognition of projects that exemplify innovation in action across our health system. These six awards celebrate a broad range of approaches, from creative problem-solving and emerging ideas to scalable impact, deep collaboration, and system-wide excellence.
Each of this year’s recipients stands out for their unique contribution to improving care, demonstrating the many ways innovation takes shape across our province, and embody the SHA’s CARES values of compassion, accountability, respect, equity and safety.
- Innovation Excellence Award – Endovascular AVF Creation – Interventional Radiology and Kidney Health Access Team
- PFP Choice Award - miyo-opikihitowin Garden at St. Paul’s Hospital, Saskatoon
- Hand-in-Hand Innovation Award – Saskatchewan People-Centered Measurement Collaborative
- Impact Innovation Award – Provincial Opioid Stewardship Program, PAR Tool and MORE Tool
- Creative Innovation Award – Saskatchewan Rural Trauma Team Development
- Emerging Innovation Award – immPACC Mapping Project to Improve Infant Immunization Rates in northwest Saskatchewan.
Thank you to all who submitted, supported, or judged this year’s projects. Your work continues to inspire us all and help us to build a more responsive, resilient, and people-centered health system.
Visit the SHA Innovates website to learn more about these initiatives, and other innovation happening around the province.
