Baldrige Examiners contribute to the process of determining each year's Baldrige Award recipients. Last year, 1/3 of all examiners were from the healthcare industry.
Why is the Baldrige Criteria for performance excellence so important to healthcare? Rulon Stacy, the CEO for Pouder Valley Health Systems says that "...as soon as you become a Baldrige organization, it will cost you less to run your business, and your outcomes will be better."
Organizations will a Baldrige Examiner on staff will have a unique resource that will give them insight on how to best align themselves to the Baldrige criteria to improve their performance.
Applications for next year's Baldrige Board of Examiners are being accepted until January 13, 2011.
You can learn more about the Baldrige Criteria here: http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/
You can learn more about the examiner application process here: http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/examiners/index.cfm
Sunday, December 5, 2010
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