Healthcare Communications & Publication Awards

The people who set the standard in healthcare communications enter here.

APEX is entering its 39th year. Hospital systems, medical publishers, nursing associations, health plans and patient-education teams account for 938 of its awards since 2020 — 182 of them Grand Awards, across 200 organizations.

See who has won

Organizations winning APEX awards in healthcare — from Fortune 500 companies to leading universities, hospital systems and small publishers

Every organization below has won at least one APEX award since 2020. Win counts are totals across all categories.

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

Also among the winners: CESAS Medical · Oncology Nursing Society · Integrated Media Services · Aegis Dental Network · Univera Healthcare · American Society for Dermatologic Surgery · Association of American Medical Colleges · Hospital for Special Surgery · American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) · Lee Health · American College of Physicians · National Board for Certified Counselors · Optum · Sage · The Aesthetic Society · American College of Radiology · American Hospital Association/ASHRM · American Nurses Association

APEX is judged on the work, not the size of the team behind it. The organizations above are the ones you are most likely to recognize, but awards go every year to independent publishers, one-person communications departments, freelancers, small agencies and volunteer-run societies — every entry is judged against the same criteria, whoever submits it.

Judges who have read 2,000+ healthcare entries

Over the past seven years alone, APEX judges have read more than 2,000 healthcare entries — clinical journals, patient magazines, system-wide campaigns, nursing publications and payer communications — from 200 organizations. They know what the category looks like at its best, and they know the particular burden healthcare communication carries: it has to be accurate enough to be trusted and clear enough to be acted on, often by someone frightened or unwell.

Respected in your field — and outside it

APEX is not a healthcare award. It is a communications and publishing award that healthcare teams win — which is exactly what makes it worth entering. Your work is not judged against a small pool of peers who share your constraints and your vocabulary. It is judged on writing, design, editing and editorial excellence against annual reports, magazines, campaigns and websites from every field APEX covers. Win here and you have two things at once: standing with the people who know your subject, and independent proof that your team can hold its own as communicators anywhere.

Selected winning entries

A cross-section of healthcare work that has won, one entry per organization. Links go to the entrant's own published work where it is still available.

★ Grand Award · 2026 · Electronic Media

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Organizations winning APEX awards in healthcare — from Fortune 500 companies to leading universities, hospital systems and small publishers

Judges who have read 2,000+ healthcare entries

Respected in your field — and outside it

Selected winning entries

Expert Weigh-In

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Where healthcare entries win

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