Congressman Smith Congratulates Nationally Recognized Texas Health Facilities
Today I congratulated two health facilities in Texas’s 21st Congressional District that are being recognized with the 2014 Malcom Baldrige National Quality Award. Hill Country Memorial in Fredericksburg, Texas and St. David’s HealthCare in Austin, Texas are receiving the award, which is the nation’s highest Presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement and visionary leadership.
Congratulations to Hill Country Memorial and St. David’s HealthCare on receiving this high honor. The facts speak for themselves: two out of four of this year’s award winners hail from Central Texas. Their records of excellence and community service make them among the top health care providers in the nation.
Two other awardees were named today: PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector Practice in McLean, Virginia received an award for service, and Elevations Credit Union in Boulder, Colorado was recognized as a nonprofit organization.
An independent board of examiners recommended this year’s Baldrige Award recipients from a field of 22 applicants after evaluating them in seven areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer focus; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; workforce focus; operations focus; and results.
The Baldrige Award was established by Congress in 1987 as a program within the Commerce Department’s National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST). The 2014 Baldrige Award will be presented at an April 2015 ceremony during the Quest for Excellence conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
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