RMPEx appoints experienced non-profit leader as Executive Director

Denver, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/22/2018 -- Rocky Mountain Professional Excellence (RMPEx), a 501c(3) organization serving as the regional organization for the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, has announced the appointment of Heidi A. Heltzel as Executive Director.

Heltzel, a member of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners, is an experienced business and organizational management strategist who helps build and reposition both healthy and troubled organizations for stronger growth opportunities. Among her accomplishments, Heltzel led the turnaround of Can Do Multiple Sclerosis, a national nonprofit, to achieve explosive growth in program delivery, funding and brand recognition. Before joining Can Do MS, she co-founded and was Executive Director of the American Transplant Foundation. Previously, Heltzel was the Vice President of Governmental Affairs at the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry (CACI), the State Chamber of Commerce, serving as the spokesperson for industry at the state legislature.

"Heidi Heltzel brings a comprehensive set of experience that aligns with the mission of RMPEx, to help organizations improve performance and achieve measureable results. She understands the importance of quality processes and can lead RMPEx to a new level. We are excited about the future of RMPEx under Heidi's leadership," said Dr. Doug Gilbert, RMPEx board chair.

"It is an honor to be chosen to lead RMPEx and promote the Baldrige framework of excellence to organizations in all industry sectors in Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. I look forward to providing programming and support to businesses, nonprofits, government entities and entire communities as they become national role models in best practices."

Heltzel holds a Bachelor of Administration in International Business from Simmons College in Boston, and a Masters in Public Affairs from Suffolk University, Boston.

About RMPEx
Incorporated in 2000 as a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation, Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx) helps organizations improve performance and achieve results. RMPEx is funded solely by contributions and operational revenues and is one of over 30 similar Baldrige state programs that exist throughout the U.S. The approaches used by RMPEx are based on the Baldrige Framework for Excellence, a proven best-practice program that evaluates organizations in seven areas: leadership; strategy; customers; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; workforce; operations; and results. The organization delivers performance excellence education and award programs in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Nebraska.

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Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence announces three Recipients of the 2017 Performance Excellence Award and one Recipient of Recognition

Denver, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/12/2017 -- Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence announces three Recipients of the 2017 Performance Excellence Award and one Recipient of Recognition.

Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx), a 501C(3) organization serving as the regional organization for the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, has named three organizations as 2017 recipients of performance excellence awards. One organization was recognized at the Peak level, the highest level award for RMPEx. Two organizations were recognized at the Foothills level for mature processes for the overall performance excellence requirements. And a fourth organization received recognition at the High Plains level. This marks a unique set of awards covering winners in 3 states.

The 2017 Award recipients are:

Peak Level Award

El Paso County School District 49, Peyton, Colorado

Foothills Level Award

Campbell County Memorial Hospital, Gillette, Wyoming

City of Arvada, Arvada, Colorado

High Plains Award

Great Plains Health, North Platte, Nebraska

This year's RMPEx Award honorees have applied the Baldrige Framework for Excellence to identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement.

Prior to this year, nine organizations had received Peak-level recognition from RMPEx. Five Colorado organizations have received the national award: City of Fort Collins (a Baldrige National Award Winner in 2017), Monfort College of Business, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado; Poudre Valley Health System, Fort Collins, Colorado (now a part of the University of Colorado Health System); Elevations Credit Union, Boulder, Colorado; and Operations Management International, Inc., Englewood, Colorado (now a part of CH2M Hill), which was the first Colorado national recipient and a founding sponsor of RMPEx.

District 49 spans 133 square miles from eastern Colorado Springs to unincorporated El Paso County. Providing students with a safe and caring environment, to be successful, competent and productive citizens in a global society is District 49's objectives. The teachers, administrators and staff members are committed to the creation of educational environments where all children can maximize their individual learning potential. The District is committed to meeting students' needs in all domains: academic, social and physical.

Campbell County Memorial Hospital is a 90-bed acute care community hospital serving northeastern Wyoming. Certified as an area trauma hospital, the 80 physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners are committed to patient well being, through their dedication to the core values of: People - Fairness and Dedication, Care - Constant Pursuit of Safety and Quality, Service - Care and Compassion, and Business - Fiscal Responsibility with Integrity and Transparency.

The City of Arvada embodies their slogan: We Dream Big and We Deliver. With 46,055 households and 115,000 residents, The City of Arvada strives to provide the best level of service and governance possible to every one of its citizens, as well as through it's 3,400 acres of parks and 149 miles of trails provide a superior quality of life.

Great Plains Health has a service area that spans 34 counties, 136,000 lives and approximately 67,832 square miles, about the size of the state of Pennsylvania. Their staff embraces their guiding principles of: access to quality care, encourage innovation in patient care, grow services to meet the region's needs, stay true to their mission, vision and values, and maintain the independence of healthcare in the region.

The 2017 RMPEx Awards will be presented at a Quest for Excellence conference to be held April 20. 2018 at the Auraria Campus in Denver. Check the RMPEx website for registration details in January.

About RMPEx
Incorporated in 2000 as a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation, Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx) helps organizations improve performance and achieve results. RMPEx is funded solely by contributions and operational revenues and is one of over 30 similar Baldrige state programs that exist throughout the U.S. The approaches used by RMPEx are based on the Baldrige Framework for Excellence, a proven best-practice program that evaluates organizations in seven areas: leadership; strategy; customers; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; workforce; operations; and results.

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New executive to succeed long-time professional at Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence

Denver, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/06/2017 -- Rocky Mountain Professional Excellence (RMPEx), a 501c(3) organization serving as the regional organization for the Malcolm Baldridge Performance Excellence Program, has announced the appointment of Paul Brothe as Executive Director. Brothe will succeed Dr. Jim Walker, current Managing Director, who has served RMPEx in several roles over many years and will remain with the organization in 2018 in a consultant role.

Brothe has served in a variety of senior leadership roles in companies both in the United States and abroad. He worked as an internal auditor for the technology companies US WEST and McDATA. While at McDATA, Brothe also served in the role of Vice President of Quality and Service. Working with software companies Nero and Quark, Brothe led operations in Germany and India. He has most recently worked with consumer goods companies Eigen Arts, as President, and Sleeping Partners Home Fashions as COO.

"Paul Brothe has a broad business background which is well suited to assisting RMPEx with the mission of helping organizations improve performance and achieve results. He understands the importance of quality processes and can lead RMPEx to a new level. We are excited about the future of RMPEx and look forward to introducing Paul to our many supporting organizations," said Dr. Doug Gilbert, RMPEx board chair.

"It is an honor to be chosen to lead RMPEx, a regional leader in performance excellence. RMPEx has a long history of providing support to organizations throughout the various states and I look forward to increasing RMPEx's profile and reach. Quality processes and procedures improve organizational results, employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. Helping organizations become more successful is both worthwhile and rewarding," said Brothe.

Brothe holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Metropolitan State University of Denver, a Master of Science in Finance and a Master of Science in International Business from the University of Colorado, Denver.

About RMPEx
Incorporated in 2000 as a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation, Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx) helps organizations improve performance and achieve results. RMPEx is funded solely by contributions and operational revenues and is one of over 30 similar Baldrige state programs that exist throughout the U.S. The approaches used by RMPEx are based on the Baldrige Framework for Excellence, a proven best-practice program that evaluates organizations in seven areas: leadership; strategy; customers; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; workforce; operations; and results. The organization delivers performance excellence education and award programs in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Nebraska.

For more information, contact Paul Brothe, RMPEx Executive Director, at 303-893-2739 or executive director@rmpex.org or consult the RMPEx website at http://www.rmpex.org.

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Three organizations receive awards

Denver, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/21/2016 -- Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx), a 501C(3) organization serving as the regional organization for the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, has named three organizations as 2016 recipients of performance excellence awards One organization was recognized at the Peak level, the highest level award for RMPEx. Two organization was recognized at the Timberline level for mature processes for the overall performance excellence requirements.

The 2016 RMPEx Award recipients are:

Peak Level

Denver Health (http://www.denverhealth.org/), Denver, Colorado, an academic, community-based health care system that serves as Colorado's primary safety net organization. This is the second time Denver Health has been recognized with an RMPEx Peak Award.

Timberline Level

El Paso County School District 49 (http://d49.org/), Peyton, Colorado, which serves the eastern part of Colorado Springs and the unincorporated portion of El Paso County known as Falcon.

Fire & Police Pension Association of Colorado (FPPA) (http://www.fppaco.org/), Greenwood Village, Colorado, which administers a statewide retirement system as well as death and disability coverage for police officers and paid firefighters throughout the State of Colorado.

This year's RMPEx Award honorees have applied the Baldrige Framework for Excellence to identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement. The Peak recipients have demonstrated improvements that now make them eligible to apply for national recognition through the national Baldrige program. The Foothills recipient has demonstrated successful initiation of performance improvement processes.

Prior to this year, eight organizations had received Peak-level recognition from RMPEx. Three RMPEx applicants have also received the national award: Monfort College of Business, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado; Poudre Valley Health System, Fort Collins, Colorado (now a part of the University of Colorado Health System); and Elevations Credit Union, Boulder, Colorado. Operations Management International, Inc., Englewood, Colorado (now a part of CH2M Hill), was the first Colorado national recipient and was a founding sponsor of RMPEx.

Accomplishments like the following may lead to the 2016 RMPEx recipients being added to the list of RMPEx applicants who are recognized at the national level:

Denver Health Denver Health utilizes Lean tools in numerous ways to design and improve work and support processes as well as to improve the quality of its healthcare services. It demonstrates strong financial performance over time and favorable trends for total market share in primary and secondary service areas.

District 49's values to innovate and be creative are supported by a systematic approach for stimulating innovation and determining intelligent risks. They employ systematic processes to collect and use data to drive performance, to listen to customers and to support their workforce.

FPPA exhibits a strong customer-focus throughout the organization, demonstrates a number of well-defined and effective work processes, and maintains a strong focus on leadership and governance.

The 2016 RMPEx Awards will be presented at a Quest for Excellence conference to be held April 14. 2017, at the Auraria Campus in Denver. Check the RMPEx website for registration details in January.

About RMPEx
Incorporated in 2000 as a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation, Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx) helps organizations improve performance and achieve results. RMPEx is funded solely by contributions and operational revenues and is one of over 30 similar Baldrige state programs that exist throughout the U.S. The approaches used by RMPEx are based on the Baldrige Framework for Excellence, a proven best-practice program that evaluates organizations in seven areas: leadership; strategy; customers; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; workforce; operations; and results.

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Four award winners honored with Dr. John Latham as main speaker

Denver, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/17/2016 -- Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx) will hold its annual Quest for Excellence Event on May 18, 2016, in the Tivoli Building on the Auraria Campus in Denver, Colorado. This event will include recognition of 2015 RMPEx award recipients and presentations on achievements in performance excellence. The RMPEx award recipients include the following:

Peak Level: AlloSource, Centennial, Colorado
Community Hospital, McCook, Nebraska
Donor Alliance, Inc, Denver, Colorado

Foothllls Level: El Paso County School District 49, Colorado

High Plains Level: Fire & Police Pension Association of Colorado, Greenwood Village, Colorado.

A Peak Level award is based on the same criteria found in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award; recipients of the RMPEx Peak award qualify for applying for this prestigious national recognition. A Foothills awards is based on a reduced set of requirements that demonstrate that the basic operational processes required for performance excellence is in place. High Plains recognition is achieved by an organization that has completed a detailed self-description that will guide their performance improvement activities.

The event will include keynote presentations by Diane Brockmeier, President & CEO of Mid-America Transplant, a 2015 National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award recipient

John Latham, award-winning author and researcher focused on helping leaders design, build, and transform organizations will deliver the main address. Dr. Latham has extensive experience working in and with a variety of business, non-profit, and government organizations from Asia to Europe in performance excellence. His accomplishments include co-authoring the Baldrige User's Guide, and helping helping senior executives and entrepreneurs design, develop, and deploy business models, leadership models, and management systems and processes. His clients have included Boeing, Kawasaki, British Airways, Motorola, The Ritz-Carlton, TATA Group (India), PRO-TEC Coating Company, Poudre Valley Health System, ASTD, U.S. Navy, Cooperative Studies Program – Veteran's Administration Research and Development, Department of Energy and most recently Virtjoule, Inc. a start-up company in Colorado.

For more information on the event or to register to attend the 2016 RMPEx Quest for Excellence, visit the Event page on the RMPEx website at http://rmpex.org/events.

About RMPEx
Incorporated in 2000 as a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation, Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx) helps organizations improve performance and achieve results. RMPEx is funded solely by contributions and operational revenues and is one of over 30 similar Baldrige state programs that exist throughout the U.S. The approaches used by RMPEx are based on the Baldrige Framework for Excellence, a proven best-practice program that evaluates organizations in seven areas: leadership; strategy; customers; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; workforce; operations; and results.

For more information, contact Dr. Jim Walker, RMPEx Award Program Director, at 303 893 2739 or drjimw@hotmail.com or consult the RMPEx website at http://www.rmpex.org.

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Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence Announces 4 Recipients of 2015 Performance Excellence Award.

Denver, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/22/2016 -- Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx), a 501C(3) organization serving as the regional organization for the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, has named four organizations as 2015 recipients of performance excellence awards Three organizations were recognized at the Peak level, the highest level award for RMPEx. One organization was recognized at the Foothills level for effective approaches to basic performance excellence processes.

The 2015 RMPEx Award recipients are:

Peak Level

* AlloSource, Centennial, Colorado, which develops, processes, and distributes life-saving and life-enhancing allografts.

* Community Hospital, McCook, Nebraska, a critical access hospital serving Red Willow County in south-west Nebraska and surrounding counties in Nebraska and Kansas.

* Donor Alliance, Inc., Denver, Colorado, the federally designated nonprofit that facilitates organ and tissue donation in Colorado and most of Wyoming.

Foothills Level

* El Paso County School District 49, which serves the eastern part of Colorado Springs and the unincorporated portion of El Paso County known as Falcon.

This year's RMPEx Award honorees have applied the Baldrige Framework for Excellence to identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement. The Peak recipients have demonstrated improvements that now make them eligible to apply for national recognition through the national Baldrige program. The Foothills recipient has demonstrated successful initiation of performance improvement processes.

Prior to this year, only five organizations had received Peak-level recognition from RMPEx. Three RMPEx applicants have also received the national award: Monfort College of Business, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado; Poudre Valley Health System, Fort Collins, Colorado (now a part of the University of Colorado Health System); and Elevations Credit Union, Boulder, Colorado. Operations Management International, Inc., Englewood, Colorado (now a part of CH2M Hill), was the first Colorado national recipient and was a founding sponsor of RMPEx.

Accomplishments like the following may lead to the 2015 RMPEx recipients being added to the list of RMPEx applicants who are recognized at the national level:

AlloSource is one of the nation's largest non-profit providers of cartilage, cellular, bone, skin and soft-tissue allografts for use in spine, sports medicine, foot and ankle, orthopedic, reconstructive, trauma and wound care applications. The company is inspired by its donors to develop innovations that advance the potential of tissue for healing patients. It demonstrates a defined, effective and integrated system for managing innovation and improving products. Their results show many areas of improving trends with some exceeding benchmarks.

Community Hospital employs a process-based management system that is thoroughly-deployed throughout the organization, using process scorecards to promote operational improvement and balanced scorecards to monitor achievement of strategic objectives. Many core measures of clinical quality show national top 10% results.

Donor Alliance, Inc. demonstrates a core competency of building relationships with transplant centers, tissue processers, donor families and employees. These relationships contribute to their vision to maximize donations. Donor Alliance achieves favorable comparisons with other OPOs in several areas and shows excellent results for regulatory and accreditation requirements.

El Paso County School District 49 has adopted the Baldrige Framework for Excellence to " improve performance by improving processes…By benchmarking our practices against high-performing enterprises in education and other industries, we can see more clearly where we are already excellent and where we have the most need to improve."

The 2015 RMPEx Award will be presented at a Quest for Excellence conference to be held this spring. In Denver. Check the RMPEx website for details to be released in January.

About RMPEx
Incorporated in 2000 as a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation, Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence (RMPEx) helps organizations improve performance and achieve results. RMPEx is funded solely by contributions and operational revenues and is one of over 30 similar Baldrige state programs that exist throughout the U.S. The approaches used by RMPEx are based on the Baldrige Framework for Excellence, a proven best-practice program that evaluates organizations in seven areas: leadership; strategy; customers; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; workforce; operations; and results.

For more information, contact Dr. Jim Walker, RMPEx Award Program Director, at 303 893 2739 or drjimw@hotmail.com or consult the RMPEx website at http://www.rmpex.org.

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