Winners Of Alabama Quality Awards To Be Presented At UA’s Conference Center

Tuscaloosa, Ala. ­ Mizell Memorial Hospital in Opp has been named the winner of the 2000 Alabama Quality Award for excellence. This award, and others, will be presented during the Alabama Quality Award Conference, Oct. 4, 5 at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.

The hospital was recognized for its leadership, strategic planning, market focus, use of information and analysis, process management, and organizational performance. Region’s Financial Corporation Information Systems Division and Canterbury Educational Foundation were finalists for the award.

The Alabama Quality Award, modeled after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, honors organizations whose recent innovations increased productivity and quality within the organization. The improvement efforts should be formal techniques or practices that can be shared with other organizations with the expectation they will be replicated and will contribute to state and national productivity and quality improvement.

Since 1986, the Alabama Quality Award has been administered by the Alabama Productivity Center. The Center is housed in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at The University of Alabama.

Winners of the Award of Excellence in Continuous Productivity and Quality Improvement are Dana Corporation’s Anniston Brake Focus Factory, Lockheed Martin-Pike County Operations in Troy, and Dana Corporation’s Trailer Axle Plant in Montgomery.

Winners were also selected for the Alabama Quality Award Team Showcase. The Gold Level winners are the Honeywell Aerospace’s www.roi@ann.com Team and Mizell Memorial Hospital’s Customer Satisfaction Team. Silver Level winners are the Customer Service Team for East Alabama Medical Center and Pike County’s Performance Management Team for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. Winners of the Bronze Level award are Conference America, Inc. and the Mock Survey Team for the Huntsville Hospital System.

The Team Showcase recognizes teams for their performance, results, and efforts to educate other organizations throughout the state on the potential benefits of empowered teams.

For details of the Alabama Quality Award Conference or to register for the event, contact Linda Vincent at the Alabama Productivity Center 205/348-8994.

The Alabama Productivity Center was established in 1986 by The University of Alabama and Alabama Power Company to focus university research and educational resources on improving productivity and stimulating economic development.

The Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration was founded in 1919 and began offering graduate education in 1924. Its received repeated positive recognition in the 1990s from such publications as Business Week, U.S. News, CompterWorld, The Princeton Review and The Gourman Report.

Contact

Linda Vincent, Alabama Productivity Center, 205/348-8994 Bill Gerdes205/348-8318