Check out the 2025 Nightingale Award winners here!
Nightingale Awards
The 2025 Nightingale Awards program is now closed. We will begin accepting product entries for the 2026 awards competition in summer 2026. Check back for more details soon!
These annual awards honor new healthcare and contract (non-residential) products that are exhibited at the Healthcare Design Conference + Expo. The 2026 event heads to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, which will be held Oct. 17-21.
Presented by Healthcare Design magazine in partnership with the HCD Conference + Expo, the Nightingale Awards recognize contributions to the healthcare built environment through product design and innovation that contribute to healing.
Nightingale competition guidelines
The product competition is open only to companies that are exhibitors during the HCD Conference. Each manufacturer/brand may enter as many products into the competition as they wish, and products may be entered into one or more categories as the product fits.
A jury of healthcare design professionals and facility managers will review entries digitally prior to visiting the exhibitors’ booths (before the expo hall opens to attendees) to examine the products in person and ask questions of the manufacturers.
Awards announced at HCD Conference + Expo
Entrants are eligible for the following award types: Gold, Silver, Innovation, Sustainability, and one Best of Competition. Winners will be announced live at the 2026 HCD Conference.
Check out the 2025 award winners here as well as in Healthcare Design magazine’s 2026 January/February issue, including Q+As with the winning product teams and insights from jurors.
Find updates and additional information on the 2025 HCD Conference + Expo here.
