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Wisconsin Forward Awards salute organizational excellence
Published January 4, 2007 - BizTimes Daily
Four Wisconsin companies will be receive the Governor's Wisconsin Forward Awards of Excellence.
The awards, announced by Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman on behalf of Gov. Jim Doyle, are the state's highest honors for organizational performance excellence.
"These award winners demonstrate that an organization's ongoing commitment to excellence can have long-term affects and lead to major gains in financial performance, patient care and safety, customer satisfaction and retention, and employee performance and involvement," Gassman said.
The four winners of the awards are:
- Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - All Saints, Racine, an integrated health care delivery system serving a population of nearly 200,000 through a network of multi-specialty and primary care physician offices and a medical center operating on two campuses.
- Runzheimer International, Waterford, a management consulting firm specializing in employee mobility, with services tailored to meet the needs of 2,500 customers through four primary business lines of service: business vehicle, global mobility, government and travel management.
- Meriter Hospital, Madison, a 448-bed non-sectarian teaching hospital providing inpatient and outpatient care to the people of southcentral Wisconsin through three key service lines - medicine, surgery and emergency services - and two specialty centers for cardiac and women's health.
- Luther Midelfort, Mayo Health System, Eau Claire, a highly integrated, physician-led, multispecialty health care system that serves 123,000 patients at four hospitals, 11 clinics and three long-term care facilities throughout seven counties.
Other organizations receiving recognition for excellence in the program include: American Society for Quality (ASQ), Milwaukee (Service); Bay Area Medical Center, Marinette (Health Care); Community Memorial Hospital, Menomonee Falls (Health Care); National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Madison (Nonprofit); Northcentral Technical College, Wausau (Education); ProHealth Care, Waukesha (Health Care); Red Cedar Medical Center, Mayo Health System, Menomonie (Health Care); St. Michael's Hospital/Ministry Health Care, Stevens Point (Health Care); St. Clare Hospital & Health Services, Baraboo (Health Care); and St. Clare Meadows Care Center, Baraboo (Health Care).
The awards program is a public/private partnership modeled after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program.
The Wisconsin Forward Award recipients will be presented with their awards in a ceremony at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison on Wednesday, Feb. 7. For additional information, visit www.forwardaward.org.
