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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Baldrige Framework Is Worldwide Standard for Excellence PDF

Baldrige Helps Health Care Organizations Provide Superior Patient Experience

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2018 Baldrige Award Recipients Announced

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

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On October 23, 2018, Jackie Beede passed away, in the comfort of her home and family. She fought a two-year battle with cancer and many years of illness and pain, always with optimism. She made the...
Where in the world is this woman (in the photo above) holding a Baldrige Excellence Framework booklet? We’ll reveal the answer in a bit. First, let’s identify her: she is Baldrige alumni examiner...
Following is my abbreviated version of a Chinese parable called “ The Wisdom of the Mountain .” For me, it gives leadership development a whole new perspective: In ancient China, an enlightened...
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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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