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What Organizations Are Saying

highly recommend

Marguerite Morgan, Hospital Administrator, Florida State Hospital
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The opportunities for improvement from this report were
truly amazing. ...As the CEO, I have seen a tremendous
amount of resurgent energy in our employees...
I highly recommend the new Baldrige
Collaborative [Assessment].

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