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Wisconsin Human Resources Award

January 18th, 2007 Posted by Amelia

Sixteen Wisconsin companies recently competed for a highly coveted award for excellence in human resources, customer service, leadership and strategic planning. Four of the companies earned the prestigious Wisconsin Forward Governor’s Award for Excellence, which will be presented in Madison on February 7, 2007.

This year’s Wisconsin human resources award winners include Meriter Hospital in Madison. The hospital is a 448-bed non-sectarian teaching hospital providing inpatient and outpatient care to the people of south central Wisconsin. Care is delivered through three key service lines: medicine, surgery, and emergency services and two specialty centers for cardiac care and women’s health.

”These award winners demonstrate that an organization’s ongoing commitment to excellence can have long-term effects and lead to major gains in financial performance, patient care and safety, customer satisfaction and retention, and employee performance and involvement,” said Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman.

In announcing the awards, Secretary Gassman praised the recipients, noting that these organizations “are committed to management excellence, have developed innovative strategies to address health care and business challenges, engage in proactive efforts to build a high-skilled workforce, and have demonstrated outstanding results.

Also earning one of the highly acclaimed Wisconsin human resources awards was Luther Midelfort May Health System of Eau Claire. This is a highly integrated, physician-led multispecialty health care system that serving 123,000 patients at 4 hospitals, 11 clinics and 3 long-term health care facilities spread throughout 7 counties.

All 16 applicants were rigorously evaluated by an independent Board of Examiners in seven areas:

Human resource focus
Leadership
Strategic planning
Customer and market focus
Measurement, analysis, and knowledge management
Process management
Results

The evaluation process included about 875 hours of review. Eight organizations earned on-site visits to clarify questions and verify information in the applications. Two other companies also received the awards and will be honored at the ceremony in Madison.