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Dr. Prem Reddy, MD, FACC, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Prime Healthcare, has received the Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by United States President, Joseph R. Biden. The award recognizes Dr. Reddy’s exceptional commitment, significant and sustained contributions to ensuring that communities have access to quality healthcare.
The Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor in the President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) program, honoring individuals for using their time and talents to solve some of the toughest challenges facing the US as a nation.
Dr. Reddy, a cardiologist from humble beginnings in rural India who was the first in his family to attend school, founded Prime Healthcare in 2001 with a mission to save hospitals and serve communities. Since 2010, Prime Healthcare has provided more than $12 billion in community benefit activities and care to treat and promote health and healing across the United States.
In addition to his recognition by The White House, late last year Dr. Reddy was honored with the first-ever Human Values Award during the Global Leadership Forum hosted by the World Forum for Ethics in Business in Washington, D.C. In 2023, Dr. Reddy was honored for his unwavering dedication to community healthcare with a lifetime achievement award from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and an Achievement Award from the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin during their 2023 Annual Convention.
In 2018, Dr. Reddy’s legacy was extended to medical education with the founding of the California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM), one of the nation’s newest medical schools located in San Bernardino County, Calif. Dr. Reddy serves as Chairman of the Board of CUSM, to promote health equity and address the physician shortage.
