Regional EMS Awards
Annually, each of Virginia’s EMS regions holds a regional awards program and seeks nominees in eight award categories, plus one scholarship and one lifetime achievement award. The nomination process usually opens at the beginning of each calendar year. The Office of EMS and the regions promote the program and publish the deadlines.
Anyone may nominate a person or organization for one or more regional awards. For more information about the regional awards program, please contact your EMS region.
Do you know a provider, organization or program that deserves recognition for its contributions to Virginia’s Emergency Medical Services system? If so, please submit a nomination today!
- You may submit your application and upload supporting documents online HERE (coming soon). Submission links may also be found on your Region’s website.
- If you prefer to submit a paper form, please click here for downloadable nomination forms. Paper nominations may be delivered or mailed to your Regional EMS office.
Guidelines
- Anyone may submit nominations for the Regional EMS Awards.
- Nominations for the Governor’s EMS Awards MUST be submitted through a Regional Awards Program. Failure to do so will render the nomination invalid and it will not be presented to the Governor’s EMS Awards Selection Committee.
- For all categories, nominations may be based on a demonstration of exceptional conduct or activities that have culminated in improvement of the emergency medical services system in the locality, region or state; or a nomination may be based on a single unusual or exceptional event which could be deemed beyond ordinary duty.
- The nominator should have broad knowledge of the nominee’s qualifications and should carefully choose the category that most appropriately matches the nominee’s accomplishments. (The regional award selection process allows nominations to be transferred to a more appropriate category at the region’s discretion.)
- One letter of recommendation and a maximum of two additional supporting documents, such as a resume or CV, published articles, or other materials may be included. Note: No more than three attachments in total will be considered.
- For the free-form sections of the nomination forms, bullet-point lists are more effective than longer narratives.
Verify your information and complete this checklist!
☐ All the required information, attachments, and any supporting documents are included.
☐ The nominee meets all the criteria for the award category. (If not, please consider a more appropriate category.)
☐ A high-resolution digital photo of the nominee is included.
☐ The published deadline is met.
Governor's EMS Awards
- The regional award winners will be automatically advanced as nominees for the annual Governor’s EMS Awards program. Winners will be recognized during EMS Week following the regional awards programs.
- A statewide selection committee will review the regional winners. Those selected by the committee will be forwarded to the Governor as recommended recipients of the Governor’s EMS Awards.
- Governor’s EMS Award winners are ineligible to receive another Governor’s Award in the same category within the following five-year period.
- If no applicant is deemed to meet eligibility in a specific category, then the Nomination Committee may omit that category from consideration. The Governor’s Award selection committee may not move a nominee to a different better-suited category.
- The statewide Governor’s EMS Awards selection committee will also consider nominees for the Scholarship and Lifetime Achievement awards.