American Design & Build
West Bend-based general contractor, American Design & Build Inc., recently awarded it’s annual partners in progress awards. Receiving awards this year were Ray Wollner Excavating Inc., West Bend; Professional Drywall Services Inc., West Bend; and HFR Electric Inc., Slinger. American Design & Build also recognized the Council on AODA and the Kettle Moraine YMCA as 2010 winners of the “Partners in the Betterment of our Community” Award.
Aurora Health Care
Aurora Health Care recently announced that 21 Aurora Health Care sites have achieved Level 3 recognition as a patient centered medical home from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Clinics with Patient Centered Medical Home status have been recognized for providing coordinated and consistent care to their patients. Level 3 is the highest level obtainable by any clinic organization. Aurora joined an Accountable Care Organization readiness collaborative in August 2010. Accountable Care Organizations are health care networks that include primary care, inpatient and outpatient hospital care, home care, pharmacy and other services. This network works together to provide coordinated, high quality and cost effective health care. Currently, there are 24 Aurora sites throughout the state of Wisconsin that have achieved Patient Center Medical Home recognition within the Aurora system. The Patient Centered Medical Home recognition acknowledges a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, their personal physicians and, when appropriate, the patient’s family. The NCQA recognition is built on evidence-based, nationally recognized clinical standards of care. The Patient Centered Medical Home standards emphasize the use of systematic, patient-centered, coordinated care that supports access, communication and patient involvement.
Johnson Controls
Princeton, N.J.-based Kepner-Tregoe, an international consulting and training services firm, recently awarded Glendale-based Johnson Controls one of its 2010 International Process Achievement Awards. The awards honor businesses that have demonstrated superior operational troubleshooting, as displayed through excellence in improving the operation of their businesses by using KT’s rational thinking processes. KT helps organizations manage concerns that range from creating and implementing high-level, enterprise-wide strategy to specific operational issues. Employees throughout JCI have been trained in KT problem solving and decision making processes and many senior level managers have been certified as KT Program Leaders. Recently, using KT Decision Analysis, JCI was able to save $5 million in choosing a software provider.
