(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Twelve high-performing organizations have been selected to receive site visits for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest recognition for organizational performance excellence. Winners of the 2015 Baldrige Award will be chosen from the organizations evaluated during these site visits.

Each year, Baldrige Award winners are announced in November and then honored at a ceremony the following spring. The 2015 awardees’ ceremony will be held during the Quest for Excellence Conference, April 3–6, 2016, in Baltimore.

Judges selected eight organizations in the health care category, two nonprofits, one small business and one educational organization to be visited by teams of Baldrige examiners, including experts in each sector, starting next month. The teams will spend several days at their assigned sites, interviewing employees at all levels of the workforce to clarify and verify information submitted in award applications.

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