2025 Awards Applications Open January 6th

2025 Healthiest State Annual Awards Categories:

The Healthiest State Annual Awards is our prestigious annual recognition program that celebrates people and organizations in 6 categories for implementing best practices to support the physical, social and mental well-being of Iowans. Apply or nominate someone you know in each of our six categories below!

K-12 Education

Individual

Youth Power

Early Care

Workplace

Health Care

2024 Award Winner Projects

Check in with our 2024 Healthiest State Award winners. Each received a monetary award to continue their efforts to create healthier environments for their students, employees and fellow citizens.

2024 Annual Awards Finalists & Winners

    • Winner: Grundy County Memorial Hospital

    • Kingland Systems LLC

    • Navigate Wellbeing Solutions

    • Winner: Bayer CropScience

    • Clarinda Regional Health Center

    • Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community

    • Winner: Grinnell Mutual Insurance Company

    • Athene Annuity and Life Company

    • Johnson County Employee Wellness Program

  • Presented by Malvern Bank

    • Winner: Melanie Bauch

    • Alysa Goethe

    • Courageous Fire

  • Presented by Holmes Murphy

    • Winner: Lauren Schroeder

    • 4-H Healthy Living Ambassadors

    • Mindfulness in Motion – No Boundaries

  • Presented by Iowa Medical Society

    • Winner: Clarinda Regional Health Center

    • Broadlawns Family Health Center

    • Blank Children’s Pediatrics

  • Presented by HealthPartners UnityPoint Health

    • Winner: Mitchellville Elementary

    • Ballard High School

    • Clear Creek Elementary

  • Presented by Iowa Department of Health and Human Services

    • Winner: Little Sprouts Early Learning CDH

    • Candace’s Caring Corner

  • Presented by Iowa Department of Health and Human Services

    • Little Friends of Living Faith

    • Winner: Red Oak Early Childhood Center