Baldrige program offers online access to Quest for Excellence conference

Don’t worry if you can’t make it to Washington, D.C., for the Quest for Excellence XXII conference on April 12-14. You can participate from your home or office, learning all about the exceptional performance management practices and results of the 2009 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Registration is now open for “Virtual Quest,” an on-demand service providing access to video recordings and slides from all presentations during the QE XXII conference, video recordings and slides from the plenary sessions alone, or audio recordings and slides from the concurrent sessions alone. The 2009 Baldrige Award recipients are: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, Kansas City, Mo. (manufacturing); MidwayUSA, Columbia, Mo. (small business); AtlantiCare, Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (health care); Heartland Health, St. Joseph, Mo. (health care); and VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center, Albuquerque, N.M. (non-profit).

For more information on Virtual Quest and to register online, go to www.baldrige.nist.gov/QEXXII/Virtual_Quest.htm.