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• ASQ Quality Report

  - 2008-10-14

  From Hand Washing to Handheld Devices: Hospitals Examine Error Prevention Methods MILWAUKEE -- A new survey of healthcare quality professionals by the American Society for Quality ASQ examines specific solutions that U.S. hospitals and patients can take to prevent medical errors. On Oct. 1, Medicare stopped paying hospitals for...

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• Metro Tech Centers in Oklahoma City named award finalist

  - 2008-09-22

  Metro Technology Centers in Oklahoma City has been selected as one of four finalists in the American Society for Quality's Education Team Excellence Award. The finalists will make presentations at the 16th annual National Quality Education Conference in Reno, Nev., on Nov. 16-18. The award is...

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• ASQ to Create K-12 'Must Do' List for Next U.S President

  - 2008-08-18

  Educators Invited to Submit Priorities MILWAUKEE -- For teachers and school administrators who would like to offer the next president of the United States and his administration a list of K-12 education priorities for America, here's your chance. The American Society for Quality ASQ invites educators from across the...

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• Healthways Wins Silver for Its Process Improvement Initiatives At World Conference on Quality and Improvement

  - 2008-06-03

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY) today announced its process improvement team was awarded the overall Silver Award at the American Society for Quality ASQ International Team Excellence competition during the World Conference on Quality and Improvement in Houston, Texas. The prestigious International Team Excellence Award event is the...

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• APQC Presents the 2008 C. Jackson Grayson Distinguished Quality Pioneer Medal Winners: Don Berwick, Blanton Godfrey, Al Gore, Jerry Weast

  - 2008-05-06

  Inaugural Award Recognizes Quality Pioneers in Government, Healthcare and Education MILWAUKEE & HOUSTON -- APQC, a nonprofit benchmarking and best practices organization, presented the inaugural C. Jackson Grayson Distinguished Quality Pioneer Medals (www.apqc.org/graysonmedal) today in Houston at the American Society for Quality's ASQ 2008 World Conference on Quality and...

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• Alcoa Team Selected for International Quality Competition

  - 2008-05-05

  NEW YORK -- Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that its Warrick Indiana Operations has been selected as a finalist in a prestigious, international competition hosted by the American Society for Quality ASQ. The Alcoa "Current Efficiency Team" will be recognized for boosting the Warrick aluminum smelter's current efficiency, reducing costs...

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• Quality Systems Play Key Role in Bank Customer Satisfaction

  - 2008-04-30

  ASQ/Harris Survey Shows Most Adults Rank Banks as Above Average MILWAUKEE -- Most Americans rank the customer service at their financial institution as above average when it comes to customer service, but there is still room for improvement, according to a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf...

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• ASQ Seeks to Resolve DHHS Checklist Controversy

  - 2008-04-02

  Healthcare Quality Initiatives Still at Risk

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• ASQ Quality Report Offers Solutions to Error-Proof Voting Machines

  - 2008-03-31

  'Change' Should Be Buzzword in Voting Process

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• MetricStream to Exhibit at the ASQ Quality Management Conference

  - 2008-02-15

  MetricStream, Inc., the market leader in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance GRC and Quality Management solutions, today announced that it is participating in the 20th Quality Management Conference being hosted by the American Society for Quality ASQ Quality Management Division. The company will be demonstrating its industry leading Enterprise Compliance Platform...

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• AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

  - 2008-02-01

  ASQ ASQ's awards board has announced the winners of its national awards for 2007. They are as follows: Brumbaugh Award: George EP. Box and Carmen Paniagua-Quinones, for their article "Two Charts: Not One," Quality Engineering, April-June 2007. Crosby Medal: Peter Patton and Bijay Jayaswal, for Design for Trustworthy Software, Pearson...

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• The Executive Guide to Understanding and Implementing Employee Engagement Programs

  - 2008-02-01

  The Executive Guide to Understanding and Implementing Employee Engagement Programs Patrick L. Townsend and Joan E. Gebhardt, ASQ Quality Press, 2007, 88 pp., $29.40 list, $16.80 member book. Although the title is almost as long as the book, authors Townsend and Gebhardt have written something albeit small that connects the...

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• Enabling Excellence: The Seven Elements Essential To Achieving Competitive Advantage

  - 2008-02-01

  Enabling Excellence: The Seven Elements Essential To Achieving Competitive Advantage Timothy A. Pine, ASQ Quality Press, 2007, 102 pp., $36.75 list, $22.05 member book. Pine has distilled his observations of the characteristics and causes of success in world-class organizations, and the resulting list of seven essential elements is presented in...

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• Corporations Tout Social Responsibility

  - 2008-02-01

  An emerging opportunity for quality professionals ACCOUNTING SCANDALS, the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 and criminal cases against formerly respected CEOs all enhanced our awareness of corporate governance and enterprise risk management. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award has added "governance and social responsibilities" to its leadership criteria,...

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• Rapid Brainstorming Brings a Deluge of Ideas

  - 2008-02-01

  Method helps ASQ section provide value to members WHAT'S THE easiest way to gather a lot of great ideas in a short period of time? That is the challenge the Charlotte Section of ASQ deals with each May when we hold our members' recognition meeting. Following a free dinner for...

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• SPEAKERS ADDED TO WORLD CONFERENCE LINEUP

  - 2008-02-01

  ASQ Three more featured speakers have been added to the lineup for the 2008 World Conference on Quality and improvement, May 5-7 in Houston. Those recently announced are: * Patrick Townsend, a former Malcolm Baldridge Award examiner and author of Commit to Quality and Quality in Action: 93 Lessons in...

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• Six Sigma and the Media

  - 2008-02-01

  During my year as president of ASQ, one of my responsibilities has been to respond to questions from the business media, including many about innovation and Six Sigma. This opportunity in Six Sigma Forum Magazine will allow me to present my answers to common questions completely and in context. 1....

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• New ASQ Fellows Named

  - 2008-02-01

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• ASQ NEWS

  - 2008-02-01

  LATEST ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBER Bell Aircraft Corp. has joined ASQ as an organizational member. The Fort Worth, TX, based aircraft manufacturer joins 10 other ASQ organizational members. For more information about becoming an organizational member, visit wwwLATEST ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBER Bell Aircraft Corp. has joined ASQ as an organizational member. The Fort...

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• CALENDAR

  - 2008-02-01

  To receive information or to register for ASQ Education Courses and Conferences, contact Learning Offerings, ASQ, 600 N. Plankinton Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53203, call 800-248-1946 or 414-272-8575, fax 414-272-1734 or visit www.asq.org. To receive information or to register for ASQ Education Courses and Conferences, contact Learning Offerings, ASQ, 600 N....

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