Three organizations will receive their Baldrige Awards from Vice President Joe Biden today in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. I attended such a ceremony about ten years ago as a guest of Custom Research, at which President Clinton handed out the Awards, and they are exciting events for the winning organizations.

The 2008 Baldrige Award recipients are:

• Poudre Valley Health System, a not-for-profit health care organization with a service area of 50,000 square miles in northern Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. PVHS has some of the highest clinical outcomes in the country for mortality rates, complication, and infection rates, and patient satisfaction and financial performance well within the top 10% of all organizations nationally.

• Iredell-Statesville Schools, a K-12 public school system serving nearly 21,000 students in southwestern North Carolina. Its per-pupil operations expenditures are among the lowest in the state at the same time that it is ranked academically in the state’s top 10 school systems.

• Cargill Corn Milling North America, a business unit of Cargill Inc. that manufactures corn- and sugar-based food in nine manufacturing facilities throughout the U.S. CCM’s earnings after tax nearly tripled from 2003 to 2007. From 2006 to 2008, CCM saved more than $15 million from ideas generated by employees.

You can learn more about these Baldrige Award recipients and the winners in previous years at the Baldrige program’s Web site here.

To find out more about the 2008 winners, read:

• Baldrige Saves Lives
• Baldrige and Magnet Recognition
• First Steps on the Baldrige Journey
• What Employees Want
• Reinventing Education with Baldrige
• The Value of Baldrige Expertise
• 83 Points
• Baldrige and K-12: Not for the Faint-Hearted
• Sophisticated Information Sharing
• Blessed with OFIs
• The Power of Process

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