Pat Quinn and the late Pete Frates, another man diagnosed with ALS, started the challenge to raise money for research and awareness.
The health care workers beat out other groups of selfless people for the prestigious honor.
Charges have been filed against five teens accused of dumping a bucket of urine, tobacco and spit on an autistic teen who thought he was participating in the ice bucket challenge for charity
central Kentucky firefighter injured in an "ice bucket challenge" has died a month after a power line shocked him and another man.
Charges could be filed against teens who tricked an autistic teenager, claiming to help him compete in the ALS ice bucket challenge. But instead, they dumped urine, feces and tobacco on him.
Five-year-old Albert is using his own version of the Ice Bucket Challenge to encourage people to become organ donors.