(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The panel of judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest recognition for organizational performance excellence, has selected 16 organizations for the final review stage for the 2010 award. Starting next month, teams of business, education, health care, and nonprofit experts will make site visits to two organizations in the manufacturing category, four in small business, one in service, one in education, seven in health care, and one in nonprofit. This is the first year since the addition of the newest category, nonprofit (in 2007), in which organizations from all six categories will receive site visits.

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