A handful of talented journalists accept their awards for excellence in health-care reporting during RNAO’s annual meeting in Toronto on April 16. The winners were chosen from 44 entries and their submissions represent large and small media outlets.

For more than a decade, RNAO’s Awards for Excellence in Health-Care Reporting have honoured the best in health news around the province.

Read about this year's winners:

•    Laurie Fagan of CBC Radio Ottawa wins the best in-depth feature, radio award for a series that explored issues related to the H1N1 outbreak.

•    The team at 570 News in Kitchener wins the best radio news story category for its coverage of H1N1 clinics in Waterloo Region.

•    Global Television’s Beatrice Politi receives two awards this year. Her special on the one per cent of people who develop serious complications from the H1N1 virus won for best in-depth feature in television, while her story about a new surgical technique that enables some people with spinal cord injuries to walk again won for best television news story.

•    Elizabeth Howell of The Globe and Mail captures best in-depth feature in a daily newspaper for her article about a 10-year-old girl living with CHARGE Syndrome, a rare illness that occurs when tissues in the heart, kidneys and other areas don’t develop fully in the womb.

•    Denise Davy, a reporter at The Hamilton Spectator, receives the daily newspaper, best series award for her stories on the crisis in children’s mental health services in Canada.

•    The Oakville Beaver receives two awards this year. Angela Blackburn wins the community newspaper, best in-depth feature category, for her story about a 92-year old Oakville man waiting for a space to become available at a long-term care home in his community. Tina Depko’s article on the first H1N1 vaccination clinic in Halton Region captures best news story.

•    Mike Adler and Lisa Queen of the The Scarborough Mirror win best series for their stories about issues at a Scarborough nursing home and the state of long-term care across the province.

•    Marcia Kaye, Today’s Parent Magazine, for best magazine story for her article on the political and economic realities of Canada’s cord blood system.

•    Melanie Anderson, a second-year student in the University of Western Ontario/Fanshawe College Collaborative Media program wins the student journalism category for a radio documentary on the need for a nationally-coordinated system for organ and tissue donation and transplantation. The documentary was broadcast on 106.9 CIXX FM in London.