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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence | ||||||
3 | was founded in 1994 as a publicly and privately-supported | ||||||
4 | not-for-profit organization; the foundation was created to | ||||||
5 | significantly raise Illinois' worldwide competitiveness by | ||||||
6 | improving the performance of the State's institutions and | ||||||
7 | businesses; and
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8 | WHEREAS, The Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence | ||||||
9 | Award process is a 3-level process, consisting of the Bronze | ||||||
10 | Award for Commitment to Excellence, the Silver Award for | ||||||
11 | Progress Towards Excellence, and the Gold Award for Achievement | ||||||
12 | of Excellence; the award process allows organizations to | ||||||
13 | measure themselves against the Lincoln Foundation's Seven | ||||||
14 | Criteria for Performance Excellence, patterned after the | ||||||
15 | Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award: Leadership, | ||||||
16 | Strategic Planning, Customer Focus, Measurement, Analysis and | ||||||
17 | Knowledge Management, Workforce Focus, Process Management, and | ||||||
18 | Results; and
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19 | WHEREAS, The Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence | ||||||
20 | has awarded the 2009 Lincoln Silver Award for Progress Towards | ||||||
21 | Excellence to the Memorial Health System in Springfield; and
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22 | WHEREAS, Memorial Health System's 6 affiliates provide a |
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1 | full range of inpatient, outpatient, home health, hospice, | ||||||
2 | behavioral health, and primary care physician services; with 3 | ||||||
3 | hospitals and other clinics in central Illinois, Memorial | ||||||
4 | deliver high-quality, patient-centered care in support of | ||||||
5 | their mission to improve the health of the people and | ||||||
6 | communities they serve; and
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7 | WHEREAS, The Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence | ||||||
8 | has awarded the 2009 Bronze Award for Commitment to Excellence | ||||||
9 | to Black Hawk College in Moline, the Illinois Municipal | ||||||
10 | Retirement Fund in Oak Brook, and St. Mary's Hospital in | ||||||
11 | Decatur; and | ||||||
12 | WHEREAS, Black Hawk College is a comprehensive community | ||||||
13 | college serving residents of Illinois Community College | ||||||
14 | District #503 through 2 campuses in Moline and Kewanee, along | ||||||
15 | with numerous satellite locations throughout the district; as a | ||||||
16 | recognized leader in education, Black Hawk College focuses on | ||||||
17 | providing the resources and environment for life-long | ||||||
18 | learning; in 1998, the college's Board of Trustees began the | ||||||
19 | journey toward excellence when the college responded to its | ||||||
20 | first Lincoln Performance Excellence cycle; over the past 10 | ||||||
21 | years, the benefits of adopting a continuous quality | ||||||
22 | improvement model have continued to emerge; the use of quality | ||||||
23 | tools and the Baldridge continuous improvement model has | ||||||
24 | improving the use of data, rather than anecdotal information, |
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1 | in decision-making; additionally, these tools provide | ||||||
2 | assurance of institutional quality to those it serves; and
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3 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) has | ||||||
4 | partnered with local units of government throughout Illinois to | ||||||
5 | provide death, disability, and retirement benefits for working | ||||||
6 | and retired public employees since 1941; today, IMRF has more | ||||||
7 | than 89,000 retired members and 182,000 active members working | ||||||
8 | for nearly 3,000 different units of government, including | ||||||
9 | schools districts, counties, cities, villages, parks, and | ||||||
10 | libraries; and
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11 | WHEREAS, St. Mary's Hospital is one of 13 hospitals in the | ||||||
12 | Hospital Sisters Health System and is a not-for-profit | ||||||
13 | organization founded in 1878; St. Mary's Hospital is an all | ||||||
14 | private room healthcare facility that combines modern | ||||||
15 | technology with the caring spirit of the original founding | ||||||
16 | Sisters; St. Mary's is situated on an attractive 21-acre campus | ||||||
17 | overlooking Lake Decatur and offers a broad spectrum of | ||||||
18 | comprehensive health services, including a Tomo Therapy | ||||||
19 | radiation treatment for cancer patients, a newly-revitalized | ||||||
20 | radiology department, and a wide range of neuromuscular | ||||||
21 | services; St. Mary's has added a number of off-site physician | ||||||
22 | offices to better help serve their patients; St. Mary's also | ||||||
23 | offers a wide range of community education and screening | ||||||
24 | programs to diverse groups throughout the region; therefore, be |
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1 | it
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2 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
3 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
4 | recognize the Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence | ||||||
5 | and its efforts to assist Illinois organizations to strive for | ||||||
6 | performance excellence and thank each of the organizations the | ||||||
7 | foundation has recognized for the devotion to excellence they | ||||||
8 | have demonstrated; and be it further
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9 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
10 | presented to the Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence | ||||||
11 | and to each 2009 Performance Excellence recipient as an | ||||||
12 | expression of our respect and esteem.
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