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ST.
LOUIS COMMERCE RECOGNIZED TOP MAGAZINE OF ITS KIND IN NATION
St. Louis Commerce Magazine won the American
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The American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) has recognized
St. Louis Commerce as “the top magazine of its kind in the
nation.” St. Louis Commerce won the Grand Award in the Business
Magazine category of the 2002 Award for Communications Excellence
(ACE) competition, which drew 295 entries from 95 chambers of commerce
throughout the nation. A panel of 40 diverse, experienced and professional
judges critiqued the entries based on a variety of criteria, including
editorial quality, photography, graphics and design.
St. Louis Commerce, which made its debut in 1918 under the
RCGA’s parent organization, the former St. Louis Chamber of Commerce,
also won the Grand Award three years ago. The 2002 Award will be
presented at the 2003 ACCE Annual Conference, held this year in
Denver, August 7, 8 and 9.
BEHIND THE SCENES AT SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE
AVAILABLE AT CHANNEL NINE
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Channel Nine’s Crew—(left to right):
Mike Munaco, Jim Langley and Bob Zahnweh join a KC-135’s
refueling mission over Missouri. |
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Just in case you missed the May airing of Channel Nine’s documentary,
A Mission Close to Home, videotapes are still available for
purchase at www.ketc.org.
The program explores the history and current role of the metro area’s
third-largest employer.
The one-hour program reveals the different operations headquartered
at Scott including USTRANSCOM, which coordinates all land, sea and
air military transportation worldwide, and the Air Mobility Command,
which coordinates all airlift and air refueling, and operates Air
Force One. Producer Bob Zahnweh and his crew were allowed to go
behind the scenes to videotape huge display screens that monitor
the status of every U.S. military shipment of personnel or materials
anywhere in the world and ride along in a KC-135 tanker on a refueling
mission over Missouri.
A Mission Close to Home interviews some of the servicemen
stationed at Scott, such as Maj. Rob Wunderlich, a member of the
126th Air Refueling Wing of the Illinois Air National Guard. Wunderlich
lives in Chesterfield and works at his family’s 142-year-old business,
Wunderlich Fibre Box Company, in St. Louis. Although the documentary’s
story ends in December 2002, Zahnweh added a coda noting that in
February Wunderlich was called to active duty supporting the Iraqi
war effort at a base in the Azores.
THE KORTE CO. NAMED GENERAL CONTRACTOR
OF THE YEAR
The Midwest Council of the American Subcontractors Association (ASA)
recently presented its General Contractor of the Year Award to The
Korte Company of St. Louis. ASA’s awards program recognizes general
contractors as they relate to subcontractors with criteria including:
bid ethics, equitable contract provisions, safety policies and practices,
payment practices, job supervision, scheduling and subcontractor
relations procedures. This is Korte’s third time to receive the
award in 10 years.
SSM HEALTH CARE WINS MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL
QUALITY AWARD
St. Louis-based SSM Health Care (SSMHC) has become the first health
care organization in the country to be named a Malcolm Baldrige
National Quality Award (MBNQA) winner. Vice President Dick Cheney
presented the award May 21 at a ceremony in Alexandria, Va.
“Congratulations to SSM Health Care, the first Baldrige Award winner
ever in health care. If all our health care organizations functioned
as effectively and achieved the levels of performance that SSM Health
Care has, we’d be a far better nation for it,” Cheney said. “To
win a Baldrige award, just being good isn’t enough. You must be
great. You must demonstrate a world class commitment to excellence.”
This is the top honor a U.S. company can receive for quality management
and quality achievement. Each year, the U.S. Department of Commerce
selects up to three organizations in the categories of manufacturing,
service, small business, education and health care for the award,
which is traditionally presented by the President of the United
States.
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Sr. Mary Jean Ryan, FSM, president and CEO, SSM Health
Care, receives the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Award certificate from Vice President Richard Cheney. |
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In accepting the award, Sr. Mary Jean Ryan, FSM, president/CEO,
SSM Health Care, said “Being the first health care organization
to win the Baldrige is an extraordinary achievement, made possible
by extraordinary people.”
Congress established the MBNQA in 1987 to recognize U.S. organizations
for their achievements in quality and business performance and to
raise awareness about the importance of quality and performance
excellence as a competitive edge. Winning organizations are considered
world-class role models in their industries. The U.S. Commerce Department’s
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) manages the
Baldrige National Quality Program.
“SSM Health Care is a role model of world-class excellence and has
achieved extraordinary results,” Commerce Secretary Don Evans said
in announcing the decision prior to the awards presentation. “The
men and women of this organization represent the highest ethical
standards in public responsibility and corporate stewardship. I
am particularly pleased to join the President in announcing a first-time
winner in health care.”
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(Left to right): Don Evans, Commerce Secretary;
Sr. Mary Jean Ryan, FSM, president and CEO, SSM Health
Care; Sr. Jacquelyn Motzel, FSM, chairperson, SSM
Health Care; Dick Cheney, Vice President. |
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SSMHC, sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, was one of 17
health care institutions to apply for the MBNQA. After submitting
a 50-page application in May 2002, SSMHC learned in September that
it would receive a site visit the week of October 28. The site visits
included comprehensive visits to the corporate office in St. Louis
and more than 17 facilities in the four states in which SSMHC operates.
The purpose of these visits, which took place at all hours of the
day, was to verify and clarify information included in the application.
Baldrige examiners spoke with more than 800 employees and physicians
throughout the system.
Organizations receiving the Baldrige award have included: Boeing
Airlift and Tanker Programs, Merrill Lynch Credit Corp., Xerox Business
Services, AT&T Consumer Communications Services, Eastman Chemical
Co., the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Federal Express Corp., Cadillac Motor
Car Division, Motorola Inc. and Westinghouse Electric Corp.
“The Baldrige model has been instrumental in helping us achieve
our mission, because we have been using it for seven-and-a-half
years to improve the care we provide to those we serve,” Sr. Ryan
commented after the awards announcement.
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