Excellence In Missouri Foundation

As your organization begins or continues its performance improvement efforts, it is our hope that the services and award programs described here will serve as an educational tool to guide you. We provide a wide range of services appropriate for organizations of all types across Missouri, and would be happy to help in your efforts to achieve performance excellence.

Our flagship service continues to be the Missouri Quality Award program, and interest in the Award process remains high. As a result, more and more organizations are learning the great value of the management system promoted by the Award process.

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BREAKING NEWS!!! THREE OF THE FIVE 2009 BALDRIGE AWARD RECIPIENTS ARE MISSOURI ORGANIZATIONS!
For the first time in Baldrige Award Program history, three recipients are from the same state (in the same award year):

Heartland Health-St. Joseph, MO
MidwayUSA-Columbia, MO
Honeywell FM&T-Kansas City, MO

The Excellence in Missouri Foundation is thrilled for these organizations and very proud that they were selected as national role models for using the Baldrige criteria as a business model. Their success is a testament to how well the criteria works regardless of size and sector. This ties Missouri with Texas for the highest number of Baldrige recipient organizations. Our sincere congratulations goes to each of these outstanding organizations! If you would like to see the official press release from Baldrige, please visit their web site at http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/baldrige_recipients2009.html.

Recipients of the 2009 Missouri Quality Award
The Missouri Quality Award Board of Overseers and Panel of Judges has select the recipients of the 2009 Missouri Quality Award. This year, the award is going to three Missouri organizations:

Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis a not-for-profit publishing company that offers more than 8,000 products for use in Christian congregations, schools, and homes. It is one of the longest-established businesses in the city of St. Louis and employs 300 people. The company has resided in the South St. Louis area at the corner of Miami and Jefferson for 140 years, providing a center of stable employment, business commitment, and community involvement. Visit CPH online at http://www.cph.org.
Park Hill School District, Kansas City encompasses 71 square miles located in southern Platte County, located just north of downtown Kansas City and is the first K-12 public school district to receive the Missouri Quality Award. Park Hill provides comprehensive educational services for more than 10,000 students in nine elementary schools, three middle schools (including a sixth grade center), two high schools, a day treatment school, and a newly‐built 40,000 square foot Early Childhood Education Center. Visit Park Hill School District online at http://www.parkhill.k12.mo.us.
St. Mary's Health Center, Jefferson City is a member of SSM Health Care and serves patients from nine counties across mid-Missouri. First opened with just 38 rooms in 1905, St. Mary's and its 1,100 employees now offer market-leading care in inpatient and outpatient services, including a clinic network that stretches throughout the region. St. Mary's clinical performance has been ranked number one in Missouri by HealthInsight.org and in the top 1 percent nationally by the Commonwealth Fund. Visit St. Mary’s Health Center online at http://www.lethealingbegin.com.

The recipients were honored at the annual Missouri Quality Award Presentation Banquet on November 19th at Tan-Tar-A Resort, located at the Lake of the Ozarks. The Excellence in Missouri Foundation congratulates all three organizations and their employees for outstanding achievement in performance excellence!