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Foreword

I’ve been a health care executive for 30 years. Early in my career, I was fortunate to work in SSM Healthcare where I watched Sister Mary Jean Ryan adopt the Baldrige Criteria and lead the process. I was so captivated by the journey and the ability I saw to align an entire organization toward one common goal that I began then and there the process to learn and adopt the Criteria.

Soon thereafter, I accepted the position of President and Chief Executive Officer at Poudre Valley Health System, and I immediately knew that I was going to use the Baldrige Criteria as the framework for how we elevated the performance of the organization from ...

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