Content by Christine Schaefer
Quality in Nursing Care Centers The impact of Baldrige at the American Health Care Center
Mon, 01/20/2014 - 17:27
A few months ago, my family received a personal reminder of the importance of quality in the skilled-nursing profession. It was delivered as my elderly father was transitioning from a hospital to a nursing home.
With the advancement of his…A Big Push for Baldrige in EducationIt’s not one more thing on your plate; it’s a way to organize your plate
Tue, 01/07/2014 - 15:20
Last month in Missouri, the Governor’s Conference on Baldrige in Education kicked off a large-scale improvement initiative that has the backing of key education groups in the state. With a mission to “facilitate school districts’ deployment of the…Why and How AARP Uses the Baldrige CriteriaStrategies in support of operational excellence and leadership development
Tue, 11/26/2013 - 15:22
How have the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence helped one of the nation’s largest and most powerful nonprofit lobbying organizations to enhance its performance? Jo Ann Jenkins, chief operating officer of AARP Inc., and past president of…Good Governance: 10 Baldrige Questions for Your Board of DirectorsAssess your organization’s performance, then target improvement goals
Mon, 11/11/2013 - 11:18
S teven Pearlstein, a business columnist for The Washington Post, and others, have written about business leaders’ excessive and shortsighted focus on stock values for shareholders. What about the role of corporate governance boards? Aren’t board…Better Than ISO?How Baldrige benefits manufacturers
Wed, 10/09/2013 - 16:42
In a recent article published by Manufacturing Business Technology, Luis Calingo, a veteran Baldrige examiner and current president of Woodbury University, spoke of the great benefits of the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to the…Baldrige Challenge: Take the Performance Self-Assessment Seven steps for a full examination
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 16:20
Let’s say your organization has already begun using a Baldrige-based approach to self-assessment. For example, your senior leaders have completed the organizational profile, reviewed the guidelines that make up the scoring system of the Criteria…Could Baldrige Help Detroit?If the will is there, Baldrige can show the way
Tue, 08/06/2013 - 15:00
As a young child, I spent most Sundays visiting my paternal grandmother in a declining inner-city neighborhood of Detroit. By then, the city had already seen large-scale losses of middle-class residents. Many had fled to suburbs that offered better…Sustaining Educational Excellence Despite Challenges
Tue, 03/03/2015 - 17:03
Last spring in this space we highlighted the continued progress in recent years of the Baldrige Award-winning Iredell-Statesville Schools (I-SS) of southwestern North Carolina. Among economic challenges that the 21,000-plus student district had…Improving Quality of Life in America, One Community at a Time
Sat, 05/01/2021 - 16:03
If you care about improving your local economy, education, community health, or other aspects of residents’ quality of life, you may benefit from learning about the initiatives of Communities of Excellence 2026. One place you can read a concise…Tight Education Funding, Growing Student Needs: Where Baldrige Is Essential
Wed, 04/02/2014 - 16:00
When Iredell-Statesville Schools (I-SS) earned a Baldrige Award in 2008, its dramatic turnaround story (featured in Baldrige 20/20, pp. 68-72) demonstrated the power of the Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence to transform a…