The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology will host its 32 annual Quest for Excellence Conference April 12-15. The virtual conference will recognize the 2019 and 2020 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipients, and leaders from those organizations, as well as past award recipients, will present at various sessions during the conference. Registration closes April 8 at 5 p.m. ET.

Among the organizations that were honored in 2019 and 2020 were Adventist Health White Memorial in Los Angeles; Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa; Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Maryland; and Wellstar Paulding Hospital in Hiram, Ga., for their exemplary dedication to the pursuit of organizational performance excellence.

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