Full Text of SR0681 096th General Assembly
SR0681 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
|
|
|
SR0681 |
|
LRB096 21418 GRL 37749 r |
|
| 1 |
| SENATE RESOLUTION
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 22 |
| WHEREAS, Memorial Health System's 6 affiliates provide a |
|
|
|
SR0681 |
- 2 - |
LRB096 21418 GRL 37749 r |
|
| 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
| 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, |
|
|
|
SR0681 |
- 3 - |
LRB096 21418 GRL 37749 r |
|
| 1 |
| in decision-making; additionally, these tools provide | 2 |
| assurance of institutional quality to those it serves; and
| 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
| 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 |
|
|
|
SR0681 |
- 4 - |
LRB096 21418 GRL 37749 r |
|
| 1 |
| it
| 2 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 3 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we recognize the | 4 |
| Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence and its efforts | 5 |
| to assist Illinois organizations to strive for performance | 6 |
| excellence and thank each of the organizations the foundation | 7 |
| has recognized for the devotion to excellence they have | 8 |
| demonstrated; and be it further
| 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.
|
|