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The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognizes U.S. organizations in the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors for performance excellence. The Baldrige Award is the highest [2] formal recognition of the performance excellence of both public and private U.S. organizations given by the President of the United States.
The report contains strengths as well as opportunities for improvement (OFI) derived from both the submitted application and a site visit. This is a distinct difference from the national Baldrige Award process [5] where only organizations with highly graded applications are granted a site visit.
The most widely recognized quality awards are the Deming Prize (the first of its kind) and the EFQM Excellence and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards (due to their size). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The national quality award phenomenon grew out of the Total Quality Management movement of the 1980s.
Baldrige was a proponent of quality management as a key to his country's prosperity and long-term strength. He took a personal interest in the legislation that became the Quality Improvement Act of 1987 and helped draft one of the early versions.
The following approaches are widely used for quality improvement in both manufacturing and services: The Baldrige Awards: A comprehensive framework for quality improvement in organizations [22] The W. Edwards Deming Management Method: Fourteen Points for Management [23] Joseph Juran's Approach: Planning, Improvement and Control [24] [25]
2016, Truven Health Analytics named Sutter Health among the top-performing health systems in the country in its 15 Top Health Systems® study. 2013, Sutter Davis Hospital became the first Northern California hospital to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award , the nation's highest presidential honor for performance excellence ...
Clinical quality management systems (CQMS) are systems used in the life sciences sector (primarily in the pharmaceutical, biologics and medical device industries) designed to manage quality management best practices throughout clinical research and clinical study management. A CQMS system is designed to manage all of the documents, activities ...
Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) [3] Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) Community Health Accreditation Program(CHAP) DNV GL Healthcare; Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) [4] Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) [5] Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP)