Bill Text: IL HR0968 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Recognizes the Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence and its efforts to assist Illinois organizations to strive for performance excellence and thanks each of the organizations the foundation has recognized for the devotion to excellence they have demonstrated.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-17 - Tabled By Sponsor Rep. Sandra M. Pihos [HR0968 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HR0968-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence
was founded in 1994 as a publicly and privately-supported
not-for-profit organization; the foundation was created to
significantly raise Illinois' worldwide competitiveness by
improving the performance of the State's institutions and
businesses; and
WHEREAS, The Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence
Award process is a 3-level process, consisting of the Bronze
Award for Commitment to Excellence, the Silver Award for
Progress Towards Excellence, and the Gold Award for Achievement
of Excellence; the award process allows organizations to
measure themselves against the Lincoln Foundation's Seven
Criteria for Performance Excellence, patterned after the
Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award: Leadership,
Strategic Planning, Customer Focus, Measurement, Analysis and
Knowledge Management, Workforce Focus, Process Management, and
Results; and
WHEREAS, The Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence
has awarded the 2009 Lincoln Silver Award for Progress Towards
Excellence to the Memorial Health System in Springfield; and
WHEREAS, Memorial Health System's 6 affiliates provide a

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full range of inpatient, outpatient, home health, hospice,
behavioral health, and primary care physician services; with 3
hospitals and other clinics in central Illinois, Memorial
deliver high-quality, patient-centered care in support of
their mission to improve the health of the people and
communities they serve; and
WHEREAS, The Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence
has awarded the 2009 Bronze Award for Commitment to Excellence
to Black Hawk College in Moline, the Illinois Municipal
Retirement Fund in Oak Brook, and St. Mary's Hospital in
Decatur; and
WHEREAS, Black Hawk College is a comprehensive community
college serving residents of Illinois Community College
District #503 through 2 campuses in Moline and Kewanee, along
with numerous satellite locations throughout the district; as a
recognized leader in education, Black Hawk College focuses on
providing the resources and environment for life-long
learning; in 1998, the college's Board of Trustees began the
journey toward excellence when the college responded to its
first Lincoln Performance Excellence cycle; over the past 10
years, the benefits of adopting a continuous quality
improvement model have continued to emerge; the use of quality
tools and the Baldridge continuous improvement model has
improving the use of data, rather than anecdotal information,

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in decision-making; additionally, these tools provide
assurance of institutional quality to those it serves; and
WHEREAS, The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) has
partnered with local units of government throughout Illinois to
provide death, disability, and retirement benefits for working
and retired public employees since 1941; today, IMRF has more
than 89,000 retired members and 182,000 active members working
for nearly 3,000 different units of government, including
schools districts, counties, cities, villages, parks, and
libraries; and
WHEREAS, St. Mary's Hospital is one of 13 hospitals in the
Hospital Sisters Health System and is a not-for-profit
organization founded in 1878; St. Mary's Hospital is an all
private room healthcare facility that combines modern
technology with the caring spirit of the original founding
Sisters; St. Mary's is situated on an attractive 21-acre campus
overlooking Lake Decatur and offers a broad spectrum of
comprehensive health services, including a Tomo Therapy
radiation treatment for cancer patients, a newly-revitalized
radiology department, and a wide range of neuromuscular
services; St. Mary's has added a number of off-site physician
offices to better help serve their patients; St. Mary's also
offers a wide range of community education and screening
programs to diverse groups throughout the region; therefore, be

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it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
recognize the Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence
and its efforts to assist Illinois organizations to strive for
performance excellence and thank each of the organizations the
foundation has recognized for the devotion to excellence they
have demonstrated; and be it further
RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
presented to the Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence
and to each 2009 Performance Excellence recipient as an
expression of our respect and esteem.