Feb 12, 2023 | Business Excellence, Education, Health Care, Latest News, News
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program has released the 2023–2024 Baldrige Excellence ® Framework (Education) and 2023–2024 Baldrige Excellence Framework ® (Health Care)—in both print form and PDF. These versions complement the Business/Nonprofit version of the framework that was released in January. All three versions include the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence (by sector), core values and concepts, and guidelines for evaluating your organization’s processes and results.
Jul 10, 2021 | Awards, Best practices, Health Care, Latest News
For its best practice of “Introduction of a Mobile Practice – Portable Plasma Collection“, New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) was the proud recipient of the 2nd New Zealand Best Practice Competition Award, held on 10 May 2021 in Wellington at the New Zealand Business Excellence Conference (Fig 1). Established in 1998, NZBS has 673 employees across New Zealand.
Dec 5, 2020 | Business Excellence, Health Care, Latest News
Originally posted on Baldrige Foundation In 1998, Congress expanded the scope of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award by authorizing the health care and education sectors. The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program then adapted the Criteria for Performance... Jun 22, 2020 | Benchmarking, Dubai We Learn, Health Care, Health Care, Latest News
In this time of crisis, benchmarking and learning from global best practices have never been more important. It was for this reason the Dubai Government Excellence Program (DGEP) launched an accelerated benchmarking initiative called “Dubai We learn – Conquering COVID-19” to provide best practices and ideas to Dubai Executive Council’s Supreme Committee of Crisis and Disaster Management with the aim “for Dubai to become a Global Best Practice in Managing and Recovering from the COVID-19 Pandemic”.
Feb 21, 2020 | Business Excellence, Health Care, Latest News
Originally posted on Blogrige by Christine Schaefer When Steve Bovey first learned about the Baldrige Excellence Framework, he was impressed that it was not “another flavor of the month” among management fads. In contrast, he said he saw that it is “a systematic... May 15, 2019 | Health Care, Latest News
Article originally posted on Blogrige by Dawn Bailey Five-Part Leadership Blog Series In this five-part blog series on the 2018 Baldrige Award recipients’ leadership presentations at the 31st Annual Quest for Excellence® Conference (April 7–10, 2019), senior leaders... Apr 7, 2018 | Business Excellence, Health Care, Latest News
When an organization ponders a journey to performance excellence, it may wonder where to begin, what to measure, and what to expect, including what short-term successes are achievable. Such pondering could be made much simpler with a field guide.
Mar 31, 2017 | Business Excellence, Health Care, Latest News
“Remarkable” means extraordinary, uncommon, worthy of notice or attention, unusual.
Would you use that word to describe your place of work? How about your hospital? Now imagine how much more confidence you would have in your health care provider if it had proven itself to be extraordinary or remarkable.
Baldrige Award recipient Hill Country Memorial continues to work toward being remarkable every day, with continuous improvements in the care it provides and in all areas of its operations.
Oct 31, 2016 | Business Excellence, Health Care, Latest News
If you are dissatisfied with your health care, can you get some money back? And if a health care organization was giving a money-back guarantee, how would you feel about its willingness to stand behind its services?
The article “It Pays to be Kind at Geisinger” describes an interesting new model at Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., for which Baldrige Award recipient AtlantiCare is now part. Since August 2016, Geisinger has paid more than $400,000 in refunds to patients “whose experiences and expectations were not met with kindness and compassion.” Under the ProvenExperience initiative, patients can request refunds, from as little as $1 to more than $2,000, if they are dissatisfied with their hospital experience.
Oct 19, 2016 | Awards, Business Excellence, Health Care, Latest News
It may not surprise anyone that Baldrige Award-winning Sutter Davis Hospital is on the 2016 list of “Best Places to Work in Health Care” recognized by Modern Healthcare. The 2013 Baldrige Award recipient has made its “Culture of Caring” the foundation for excellent results in all key areas. In fact, the high-achieving hospital considers its Culture of Caring to be its core competency.
Sep 20, 2016 | Business Excellence, Health Care, Latest News
Every year a new cohort of Baldrige Executive Fellows gains intensive knowledge about leading organizations to excellence through cross-sector, peer-to-peer learning hosted at the sites of Baldrige Award recipients. Every Baldrige Fellow completes a capstone project as part of the executive leadership program.
