The James A. Hamilton Award is given annually to the author(s) of a management or healthcare book judged to be outstanding by ACHE's Book of the Year Committee. Nominations for the award are solicited from editors in the management publishing field. Created in 1958, the award is underwritten by the Alumni Association of the Graduate Program in Healthcare Administration of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in honor of the late James A. Hamilton, FACHE, the program's founder and course director from 1946-1966 and ACHE's 1939-1940 Chairman.
The 2026 winner is:
Rewiring Excellence: Hardwired to Rewired by Quint Studer with Dan Collard (The Gratitude Group Publishing, 2025).
View the list of James A. Hamilton Award winners.
Nominations for the 2027 Hamilton Award open in April 2026. For more information about the award or nominations, contact Jennifer L. Connelly, FACHE, CAE, at (312) 424-9320 or jconnelly@ache.org.