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<p><span><span><span>The <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="00b6643c-f609-4ef9-baab-8a71ecca6aa9" href="/baldrige/publications/baldrige-excellence-framework" title="Baldrige Excellence Framework">Baldrige Excellence Framework</a> and its <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="04881de3-55aa-4c9b-bc62-65aac27dc41d" href="/baldrige/baldrige-criteria-commentary" title="Baldrige Criteria Commentary">Criteria</a> are intended to be a collection of questions to provide all the considerations an organization needs to operate at the leading edge of validated leadership and performance practice. Indeed, <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="94b2c52f-8d9b-4e73-9d01-af41c69de35f" href="/baldrige/how-baldrige-works/baldrige-community/board-overseers" title="Board of Overseers">Baldrige Overseer Ray Floyd</a> called the Criteria a “<a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="1de3799c-8861-48d9-80f6-b94565f57f34" href="/blogs/blogrige/focus-baldrige-board-overseers-raymond-floyd" title="Focus on the Baldrige Board of Overseers: Raymond Floyd">ready reference manual for the practice of excellence.</a>”</span></span></span></p>
<h3><span><span><span><span><span>So, what could consistent use of the framework do for your organization?</span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<p><span><span><span>The <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="238425d5-a769-4944-9124-0df9019579b5" href="/news-events/news/2022/03/three-organizations-win-2021-baldrige-awards-performance-excellence" title="Three Organizations Win 2021 Baldrige Awards for Performance Excellence">2021 Baldrige Award winners</a>—<a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="fdc15dd7-50ce-4651-b5f6-c7b7cfc0c1d1" href="/baldrige/charter-school-san-diego-2021" title="The Charter School of San Diego 2021">The Charter School of San Diego</a>, <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="93414c35-1f62-4c36-aaff-1f33955f7c0a" href="/baldrige/mid-america-transplant-2021" title="Mid-America Transplant 2021">Mid-America Transplant</a>, and <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="d53ad24f-f5b6-49e8-b932-5eec0218a7f3" href="/baldrige/midwayusa-2021" title="MidwayUSA 2021">MidwayUSA</a>—are the perfect examples of organizations that have used the Criteria over time to guide their operations and internalize the best practices that have worked for them. Their consistent use led to results that have consistently placed them among the best of the best in their industries, sectors, and communities.</span></span></span></p>
<p>Following are some updated data based on two- and three-time organizational winners of the Baldrige Award, from their first to most recent applications. These date include the 2021 recipients.</p>
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<p><span><span><span>The Baldrige Program has had two three-time Baldrige Award winners: <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="00a848af-c6ca-4437-987f-24784d7f0c4b" href="/baldrige/mesa-2020" title="MESA 2020">MESA</a> and MidwayUSA. </span></span></span><strong><span><span><span>Their median and average growth for revenue is calculated at 255%!</span></span></span></strong></p>
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<h3><span><span><strong>Using Baldrige Framework since 2005: Because It’s “the Hallmark for Performance Excellence”</strong></span></span></h3>
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<p><span><span><span>Two-time Baldrige Award recipient the Charter School of San Diego (CA)—which provides free, personalized education to students in grades 6–12 who are at risk of not graduating from high school through a hybrid in-person/online study program—began using the Baldrige framework in 2005 because the “Baldrige Criteria are recognized internationally as the hallmark for performance excellence,” and it has consistently posted student learning results that significantly outperform peers. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>For example, for the past five years, the Charter School has sustained student performance for grades 6–8 and 11 in the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress double that of all competitors and county and state Dashboard Alternative School Status (DASS) schools in English Language Arts and three times higher in math.&nbsp;(Designated by the state, a DASS school must have at least 70% of its total enrollment composed of high-risk groups.) In addition, it maintained overall student and parent satisfaction levels of close to 100% from 2016–2021. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>In <a href="https://www.nist.gov/baldrige/charter-school-san-diego">2015</a>, the Charter School of San Diego became the first charter school to win a Baldrige Award, and it now becomes the first two-time awardee in the education sector.</span></span></span></p>
<h3><span><span><span><strong>Using Baldrige Framework since 2005: Because It Helped Achieve “Goal of Saving More Lives”</strong></span></span></span></h3>
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<p><span><span><span><span><span>Two-time Baldrige Award recipient</span></span><strong> </strong>Mid-America Transplant (St. Louis, MO), a private, nonprofit, organ procurement organization (OPO) and eye and tissue bank that serves 84 counties in Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas, adopted the Baldrige framework in 2005 “with the goal of saving more lives.” Mid-America Transplant is now one of the top-performing OPOs nationwide, with more than 125 organs transplanted annually per 1 million population since 2017. Between 2003 and 2020, the organization’s Baldrige journey has led to a 167% increase in organs transplanted and a 385% increase in tissue donors, saving and healing thousands of lives.&nbsp;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>In addition, t<span><span><span><span>hrough the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Mid-America Transplant's&nbsp;<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>results included a very low rate of missed organ referrals (sustained near zero from 2017 through 2020) and a best-possible rate of timely organ referrals (100% done within 90 minutes from the time of the donor’s death). Its o<span><span><span><span><span><span>verall workforce engagement has consistently exceeded two external industry comparisons.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span><span>MidwayUSA (Columbia, MO) is a family-owned, internet retailer offering products for shooting, hunting, fishing, and the outdoors. Since first adopting the Baldrige Criteria in 2006 as its “leadership and management guide,” MidwayUSA has continued to pursue its vision:</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>“to be the best-run business in America, and the most successful, respected business in our industry, for the benefit of our Customers."</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>In <a href="https://www.nist.gov/baldrige/midwayusa">2009</a> <span>and</span> <a href="https://www.nist.gov/baldrige/midwayusa-2015">2015</a><span><span>, </span></span>MidwayUSA was recognized in the small business category. Its third award is in the service category, <span>making it only the second three-time Baldrige Award recipient in the 30+ years of the award.</span></span></span></span><br>
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