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RECOGNITION CENTRAL

The Health Observances & Recognition Day Calendar is published by the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development of the American Hospital Association. The dates below are listed by months, weeks and then days in date order.

If you'd like to add your healthcare-related recognition date to the calendar, contact the HR Service Center via GroupWise or Internet e-mail at hrservicecenter@carilion.com or by phone at 983-3600 (33600) or 1-800-599-2537.

2008 Healthcare Observance Dates
January
  • Cataract Awareness Month
  • Cervical Health Awareness Month
  • Glaucoma Awareness Month
  • March of Dimes Birth Defects Prevention Month
  • Volunteer Blood Donor Month
  • 10: Find a Dentist Day

February
  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)/Low Vision Awareness Month
  • American Heart Month
  • Children's Dental Health Month
  • Kids E.N.T. (Ears, Nose, Throat) Awareness Month
  • 1: Women's Heart Health Day
  • 1-7: Patient Recognition Week
  • 4-10: Burn Awareness Week
  • 6-13: Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
  • 14: Have a heart Day

March
  • Brain Injury Awareness Month
  • Child Life Month
  • Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
  • DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) Awareness Month
  • Eye Donor Month
  • Hemophilia Awareness Month
  • Kidney Month
  • Mental Retardation Awareness Month
  • National Nutrition Month
  • Nutrition Month
  • Save Your Vision Month
  • Social Work Month
  • 4-10: Patient Safety Awareness Week
  • 11-17: Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week
  • 18-24: Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week; Poison Prevention Week
  • 19: National Nurse Certification Day
  • 27: Diabetes Alert Day
  • 28: National Kick Butts Day (to quit smoking)

April
  • Alcohol Awareness Month
  • Autism Awareness Month
  • Cancer Control Month
  • Child Abuse Prevention Month
  • Counseling Awareness Month
  • Donate Life Month
  • Foot Health Awareness Month
  • Occupational Therapy Month
  • Oncology Nursing Month
  • Women's Eye Health and Safety Month
  • Youth Sports Safety Month
  • 2-8: Public Health Week
  • 4-11: Health in the Americas Week
  • 8-14: Patient Advocacy Week
  • 9-15: Health Information Privacy and Security Week
  • 15-21: Electroneurodiagnostic Week; Minority Cancer Awareness Week
  • 21-28: Infant Immunization Week
  • 4: World Health Day

May
  • Allergy & Asthma Awareness Month
  • Arthritis Month
  • Better Hearing & Speech Month
  • Better Sleep Month
  • Critical Care Awareness & Recognition Month
  • Healthy Vision Month
  • Hepatitis Awareness Month
  • High Blood Pressure Education Month
  • Huntington's Disease Awareness Month
  • Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
  • Mental Health Month
  • Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month
  • Older Americans Month
  • Osteoporosis Awareness & Prevention Month
  • Physical Fitness and Sports month
  • Sight-Saving Month: Ultraviolet Awareness
  • Stroke Awareness Month
  • Teen Pregnancy Awareness month
  • Trauma Awareness Month
  • Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness Month
  • 6-12: Alcohol and Other Drug-Related Birth Defects Week; Children's mental health Week; North American occupational Safety & Health Week
  • 13-19: Food Allergy Awareness Week; Running and Fitness Week
  • 20-26: National Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week
  • 2: Asthma Awareness Day
  • 8: Childhood Depression Awareness Day
  • 16: Employee Health and Fitness Day
  • 30: Senior Health and Fitness Day
  • 31: No Tobacco Day

June
  • Aphasia Awareness Month
  • Hernia Awareness Month
  • Scleroderma Awareness Month
  • Vision Research Month
  • 2-9: Dystonia Awareness Week
  • 3-9: Headache Awareness Week
  • 11-15: Hand Therapy Awareness and Injury Prevention Week
  • 11-17: Men's Health Week
  • 3: Cancer Survivors Day
  • 26: HIV Testing Day

July
  • Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month
  • 8-14: Therapeutic Recreation Week

August
  • Cataract Awareness Month
  • Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
  • Immunization Awareness Month
  • Neurosurgery Outreach Month
  • Psoriasis Awareness Month
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
  • 1-7: World Breastfeeding Week
  • 5-11: Health Center Week

September
  • Baby Safety Month
  • Cholesterol Education Month
  • Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
  • Healthy Aging Month
  • Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myelomia Awareness Month
  • Pain Awareness Month
  • Prostate Health Month
  • Sickle Cell Awareness Month
  • Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month
  • 1-7: Childhood Injury Prevention Week
  • 9-15: Assisted Living Week; Suicide Prevention Week
  • 16-22: Prostate Cancer Awareness Week; Prostatitis Awareness Week; Rehabilitation Awareness Celebration
  • 17-23: Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week
  • 23-29: Adult Immunization Awareness Week
  • 30-Oct. 6: Mental Illness Awareness Week
  • 26: Women's Health and Fitness Day
  • 29: Family Health and Fitness Day

October
  • Breast Cancer Awareness Month
  • Dental Hygiene Month
  • Domestic Violence Awareness Month
  • Down Syndrome Awareness Month
  • Eye Injury Prevention Month
  • Healthy Lung Month
  • Liver Awareness Month
  • Lupus Awareness Month
  • Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month
  • Physical Therapy Month
  • Spina Bifida Awareness Month
  • Ultrasound Awareness Month
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month
  • 1-7: Mental Illness Awareness and Bipolar Disorder Awareness Week
  • 7-13: Nuclear Medicine week
  • 12-20: Bone and Joint Awareness Week
  • 19: Mammography Day
  • 24: Lung Health Day

November
  • Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
  • American Diabetes Month
  • Epilepsy Awareness Month
  • Healthy Skin Month
  • Home Care Month
  • Hospice Month
  • Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
  • 4-10: Diabetes Education Week
  • 15: Great American Smokeout

December
  • Drunk & Drugged Driving Prevention Month
  • Safe Toys and Gifts Month
  • 1-7: Aplastic Anemia/Myelodsplastic Syndrome Awareness Week

 

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WHAT IS RECOGNITION?
Recognition is the acknowledgement of an individual's or team's desired behavior, effort or business result that supports the organization's goals and values.
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