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Thank you for being Committed to a State of Excellence!

On April 30, 2009 a facsimile check was presented to Governor Bill Richardson for $643,908, representing the value of volunteer hours performed to enhance economic competitiveness across the state through Quality New Mexico and the New Mexico Quality Awards program. Presenting is Kirtland Federal Credit Union Board Chair Mike Chase and KFCU President/CEO David Seely.

Our most Valuable Resource QNM Volunteer Workforce:

Thanks For Lending New Mexico Your Knowledge, Skills, Talents:

Quality New Mexico Instructors
Gary Echert, Echert Quality Engineering Services
Duane Fladland, New Mexico Small Business Development Center
Kathie Gilbert, Western New Mexico University
Stan Johnson, Department of Veterans Affairs - Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center
Gail Mora
Tracie O'Geary
Stephen O'Neill

Dawn Reed, Human Strategies
Georgann Taylor, Taylor & Associates

Assessments & Recognition Committee
Chuck Baumgart, Committee Chair, Presbyterian Health Plan
Brian Burnett, Bohannan Huston
Veronica Garcia, NM Public Education Department
Kevin Garrett, CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center
Gail Willette

Business Development
Brian Burnett, Committee Chair, Bohannan Huston
Kathi Bearden
Jim Easley, Wells Fargo Bank
Bob Gorrell, New Mexico Public Schools Facility Authority
Michele Jacquez-Ortiz, Senator Tom Udall

Conference Committee
Deborah Gorenz, 2010 Conference Chair, Hospital Services Corporation
Tom MacLean, 2011 Conference Chair, Blue Cross Blue
Shield of New Mexico
Kevin Boberg, Arrowhead New Mexico State University
Joe Calvaruso
Kathie Gilbert, Western New Mexico University
Harold Kinney, Bright Ideas Promotional Products GALORE!
Craig Nelson, Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Steve O’Neill
Camille Singarju

Ann Marie Stein, UNM Hospitals
Joni Thompson, Albuquerque Convention & Visitor’s Bureau
Victor Valdez, Wells Fargo Bank
Linda Wedeen, Hewlett-Packard
Amy Wohlert, University of New Mexico
Gayle Wright, MIOX Corporation

Education & Training Committee
Amy Wohlert, Committee Chair, University of New Mexico
Chuck Baumgart, Presbyterian Health Plan
Kathie Gilbert, Western New Mexico University
Joni Thompson, Albuquerque Convention & Visitor’s Bureau
Kathie Winograd, Central New Mexico Community College

Marketing Committee
Linda Wedeen, Committee Chair, Hewlett-Packard
Kathi Bearden
Brian Bentley, Gila Regional Medical Center
Kevin Boberg, Arrowhead New Mexico State University
Michele Campbell, Campbell Consulting
John Cordova
Troy Greer, Lovelace Westside Hospital
Bob Gorrell, New Mexico Public Schools Facility Authority
Kim Hedrick, UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center - UNM Medical Group
Ed Rivera, United Way of Central New Mexico
Dave Saegart, GCC Rio Grande
Patrick Duran, Congressman Ben R. Lujan

In Loving Memory & Special Recognition To Our Long-time Friend and Volunteer

Captain Anthony ‘Tony’ Nash, USAF (Retired)
August 26, 1943 – September 3, 2009

Tony dedicated so much of his personal time to help New Mexico and our nation’s businesses and organizations improve their performance. As a volunteer to QNM he served as a Training Instructor, a member of the Conference Team, on the NMQA program as a Senior Examiner, Technical Editor, Team Lead, and Coach.  He served as a Senior Examiner to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards program. 

Quality New Mexico Volunteers are extraordinary people doing extraordinary things! Volunteering is about giving, contributing, and helping other businesses/ organizations. It is working for others to make
New Mexico a State of Excellence.

If you are interested in Volunteering, please call our office at 505-944-2001

Outstanding Recruitment of Individuals to Serve on the Board of Examiners

2009
MOST EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Kirtland Federal Credit Union

RUNNER-UP EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Presbyterian Healthcare Services

HONORABLE MENTION
Del Norte Credit Union
French Family of Companies*
Gila Regional Medical Center
NM Dept of Transportation

2008
MOST EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Gila Regional Medical Center

HONORABLE MENTION
Hospital Services Corporation*
Los Alamos National Laboratory

2007
MOST EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Presbyterian Healthcare Services

RUNNER-UP EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Kirtland Federal Credit Union
VA Cooperative Studies Program

HONORABLE MENTION
Gila Regional Medical Center*
University of New Mexico
Western New Mexico

2006
MOST EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Presbyterian Healthcare Services

RUNNER-UP EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Kirtland Federal Credit Union

HONORABLE MENTION
Gallup-Mckinley County Schools
Gila Regional Medical Center
Western New Mexico University

2005
MOST EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Presbyterian Healthcare Services

2004
MOST EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Presbyterian Healthcare Services

2003
MOST EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Presbyterian Healthcare Services

RUNNER-UP EXAMINERS RECRUITED
NMSU- Carlsbad

2002
MOST EXAMINERS RECRUITED
Presbyterian Healthcare Services

*Director’s Recognition – an organization that contributed significantly to the examiner process in relation to their size.

 

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