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During 2017, Germantown achieved continuously strive to implement the the Baldrige framework to help them
reaffirmation of the City’s Triple-A bond best practices in their industry or sector,” become the best they can be.”
rating from both Moody’s and Standard Tennessee Center for Performance
and Poor’s, Fire Department Class 1 ISO Excellence President Katie Rawls said. The Tennessee program, which is
rating, Germantown Police Department “But it’s not easy – if it were, every also widely recognized as a national
Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police organization in the state would be and international role model, is open
accreditation, National Recreation and participating. Our 2017 award winners to all businesses and industries as
Parks Association accreditation and are truly passionate about performance well as public and private educational
distinguished budget and audit awards excellence and have chosen Tennessee institutions, health care organizations,
from the Government Finance Officers Center for Performance Excellence and government agencies and other non-
Association. Other significant honors profit entities.
include being named the Healthier
Tennessee Community of the Year, Tennessee Center for Performace Excellence
Commercial Appeal Top Workplace, 100
Best Fleets in America and recognition as a Established in 1993 as a public-private partnership, the Tennessee Center
TVA Platinum Sustainable Community. for Performance Excellence strives to promote economic development and
drive organizational excellence by helping companies and organizations grow
This year, five organizations will be more competitive in today’s global marketplace through affordable, in-depth
honored with the Tennessee Center for assessments. A statewide nonprofit, Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence
Performance Excellence Achievement is grounded in the Baldrige Excellence Framework—a holistic framework used
Award, 24 will receive the Commitment by organizations across multiple industries to improve their performance and
Award, and one will receive Interest achieve sustainable results. More than 1,400 organizations have participated in
Recognition. The awards will be presented and benefited from the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence program.
at the 25th annual Excellence in Tennessee Five Tennessee businesses—Bristol Tennessee Essential Services, Caterpillar
Awards Banquet in February. Financial Services Corporation, Pal’s Sudden Service, Eastman Chemical
Company, and Federal Express—have received both the prestigious Baldrige
Tennessee Center for Performance National Quality Award and the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence
Excellence uses the Baldrige Excellence 2017 Excellence Award.
Framework™ established by the national
Baldrige Performance Excellence For more information on the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence, visit
Program as its evaluation tool. “The www.tncpe.org. For more information on the Baldrige Performance Excellence
TNCPE Awards program helps Program, visit www.nist.gov/baldrige/.
organizations look at the big picture and
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