CDH Partners, a Georgia-based architecture and interior design firm specializing in healthcare, was honored by HomeTown Health LLC as the “2025 Business Partner of the Year.”

The award recognizes the firm for its exemplary services and dedication to rural hospitals across Georgia, the Southeast, and the nation.

The recognition was presented at HomeTown Health’s 26th Annual Fall Conference at Callaway Gardens on Oct. 23, 2025. The annual award is the culmination of nominations from HomeTown Health member hospitals seeking to recognize partners that provide best-practice solutions, high-level customer support, and a positive influence on rural healthcare delivery.

“HomeTown Health’s mission to support rural hospitals is deeply aligned with our own passion for rural healthcare design. We are dedicated to providing consistent, high-quality, and impactful design work that ultimately serves the patients, staff, and communities that depend on these vital rural facilities. We are immensely grateful to the member hospitals for this wonderful acknowledgment,” said Melissa Cantrell, President & CEO of CDH Partners.

HomeTown Health, a network of rural healthcare organizations, commended CDH Partners for its commitment to excellence and its history of service to the rural market.

“This coveted award is presented each year by HomeTown Health to one of 60 Business partners who exhibit extraordinary support and dedication to HomeTown Health hospitals, commitment to excellence, exceptional customer service, and for their tireless efforts in helping rural hospitals survive,” said HomeTown Health CEO Jimmy Lewis.

Lewis added, “When we think about this partner organization – the work they’ve done in and outside our network working intentionally and exceptionally on each partnership, we think of these qualities – consistency, high quality, predictability, and passionate for rural. This partner organization demonstrates dedication to the patients, staff and communities through effective, efficient design work that is functional, but also beautiful and welcoming.”

HomeTown Health specifically cited the qualities of consistency, high quality, predictability, and passion for the rural sector in selecting the firm.

“The 2025 Business Partner of the Year was selected for its unwavering commitment to excellence and innovation and demonstrated history of service to rural hospitals and healthcare organizations – with a focused priority on information sharing, thoughtful service, participatory collaboration with accountability, executed vision, and exceptional design,” stated Sherri Ackerman, Business Partner Director of HomeTown Health, who presented the award to CDH Partners representatives Danny Mackey, Associate Principal & Owner, and Mary Lindeman,

Principal.