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