Baldrige Performance Excellence Program

The Baldrige Program oversees the nation's only Presidential award for performance excellence while offering a wide array of award-winning products and services, including the world-renowned Baldrige Excellence Framework. We invite you to learn about the Baldrige community dedicated to helping organizations improve.
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2018 Baldrige Award Recipients Announced

Alamo Colleges District (Education)
Donor Alliance (Nonprofit)
Integrated Project Management Company, Inc. (Small Business)
Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center (Health Care)
Tri County Tech (Education)

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Theresa Trivette is chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services at Adventist Health Florida Hospital Tampa. In recent years, she also has served four times as an annual...
According to senior examiner Dawn Garcia, the best part about being a Baldrige examiner is “sharing what we learn from best-practice organizations with others that are committed to the journey.” Of...
A retirement party on December 3 will celebrate Jacqueline Calhoun, who can claim illustrious careers both in the NIST laboratories and in its extramural programs, namely at the Baldrige Performance...
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Baldrige Collaborative Assessment

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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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  • Baldrige Customer Service
    baldrige@nist.gov
    (301) 975-2036
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