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The 25th Annual Quest for Excellence® Conference and Award Ceremony
The Official Conference of the Baldrige Award
April 7-10, 2013
Marriott Baltimore Waterfront • Baltimore, MD

For 25 years, the Baldrige Program has helped build strong, competitive U.S. organizations, and it has been emulated by quality programs worldwide. In a 25th-anniversary congratulatory letter, President George H.W. Bush, writes, “The purpose behind the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award has always been a national purpose—for American organizations to offer products and services that are world-class.”

Baldrige Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
Honoring Our Past. . . Building an Even Better Future

Baldrige Regional Conferences in 2013:
The 2013 Baldrige Regional Conferences will showcase the best-in-class practices of the 2012 Silver Anniversary Baldrige Award Recipients as well as former recipients from years past.
The Regional Conferences will be held in September and October 2013. The major locations are Chicago and Dallas for the 2013 Regional Conferences.

Wyndham Lisle-Chicago Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Lisle, IL - Scheduled dates are
September 11 and 12, 2013
Dallas Location and Dates TBD

Registration WILL OPEN in June 2012.
For more information, visit www.nist.gov/baldrige, email baldrige@nist.gov or call 301-975-2036.

Award Recipient

Silver Anniversary Group Features Winners in Four Different Sectors

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank today named four U.S. organizations as recipients of the 2012 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest Presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement and visionary leadership. The winners in this, the 25th anniversary year of the award, represent four different sectors, one repeat recipient and a health network recognized for the same honor earned previously by its flagship hospital.

The 2012 Baldrige Award recipients —listed by Industry category—are:

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Grand Prairie, Texas (manufacturing)

MESA Products Inc., Tulsa, Okla. (small business)

North Mississippi Health Services, Tupelo, Miss. (health care)

City of Irving, Irving, Texas (nonprofit)

MESA previously received a Baldrige Award in 2006, also in the small business category. Another 2006 award winner, North Mississippi Medical Center in the health care category, is the primary hospital of this year's much larger recipient, North Mississippi Health Services.

Foundation Objectives

The Foundation provides the private sector a means of accomplishing the following Award objectives:

Raise sufficient funds to establish and manage an endowment which, when supplemented by fees from Award applicants, permanently funds the Program.

Oversee the investment of endowment funds.

Review Program accomplishments.

Disburse required funds to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Review the plan and approve associated funds requirements for subsequent years to ensure a successful Award Program.

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