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The Keystone Alliance for Performance Excellence (KAPE) is accepting applications for examiners for the 2012 Keystone Excellence Awards cycle through the end of January 2012.

About KAPE

The Keystone Alliance for Performance Excellence (KAPE) is a 501c(3) nonprofit corporation that helps all types of organizations improve their performance and outcomes, including productivity, workforce engagement, competitiveness, and customer and stakeholder satisfaction.

We use the leading-edge Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence as the basis for our process and for giving feedback to applicants. While KAPE's process is modeled after the prestigious Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, our process is not about "winning an Award." It's about using the Criteria to perform low-cost, non-prescriptive assessments in addressing each applicant's unique challenges. Applicants have said that the KAPE process is one of the best, most cost-effective and comprehensive assessments available. All KAPE applicant organizations - regardless of size - receive public recognition for their efforts in journeying toward performance excellence.

Congratulations to the following members of ASQ Pittsburgh who recently passed these certification exams.

For more information on ASQ Certifications and Exam Schedules,  Click HERE

Contact ASQ Pittsburgh Certification Chair Timothy Hahn for instructions on submitting recertification packages.

The ASQ Healthcare Division is announcing the 2012 HCD Nightingale Scholarship!

This is a great opportunity for a student to gain some recognition for work related to healthcare quality!  ASQ’s Healthcare Division will award one annual $2,000 scholarship in honor of Florence Nightingale, the widely recognized initiator of nursing as a profession. The scholarship winner will be announced at the Quality Institute for Healthcare Conference May 21-23, 2012 in Anaheim, CA.

If you are currently a student in an accredited post-secondary institution pursuing studies related to healthcare quality, you may wish to apply for this scholarship. As a Healthcare Division Member, you may know and wish to sponsor such a student in the competition. This is an excellent opportunity to sponsor and mentor a student who has a focus on Quality in Healthcare!

Please take a moment to check out the scholarship page for the application and additional information: http://asq.org/health/about/awards-health.html.

The deadline for submission is January 31, 2012.