SHA Innovation Awards
Innovation happens every day across the Saskatchewan Health Authority — in clinics, hospitals, and communities where teams are finding new ways to improve care. The SHA Innovation Awards, delivered through SHA Innovates, celebrate this creativity in action.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 SHA Innovation Awards — an annual recognition of projects that exemplify innovation 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 embodying the SHA CARES values of compassion, accountability, respect, equity, and safety. This year’s award recipients include:
- 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 everyone who submitted, supported, or judged this year’s projects. Your work continues to inspire us all and helps build a more responsive, resilient, and people-centered health system.
Learn more about our innovation programs through SHA Innovates.