Medallion for Performance Excellence 

Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA) is a large, not-for-profit, multi-site health care system that serves the southern and central Appalachian region in Virginia and Tennessee. The roots of MSHA go back over 100 years, starting as the Memorial Hospital in Johnson City (TN), which now serves as the center “hub” of the hub and spoke system that serves a 29 county geographic region that extends into Eastern Kentucky and Western North Carolina. MSHA uses a patient-centered care model to provide acute care, hospital based care and both inpatient and outpatient support services.

Plaque for Performance Excellence 

Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital (SMH) is a privately-held, catholic, not-for-profit, tertiary care hospital that has been providing quality, compassionate healthcare to the residents of Richmond, VA for over 40 years. SMH is a state-of-the-art 391-bed facility served by more than 1,000 physicians and nearly 3,000 full and part-time employees that fosters a culture of giving, encouraging individuals to make a difference in the lives of patients, colleagues and the community.

Mary Washington Healthcare (MWHC) is a not-for-profit, regional healthcare system that provides general medical and surgical inpatient, outpatient, and emergency services. The MWHC system includes a 437-bed medical center, a 100-bed general medicine and surgical hospital, and eight smaller facilities for emergency, urgent care, ambulatory surgery, and outpatient care. MWHC’s 4,400 Associates, 550 independent physicians, and 500 volunteers deliver its services across its primary service area of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and its four surrounding counties. MWHC’s vision is “Excellent, compassionate healthcare. Always,” and its mission “To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve.” 

Certificate for Performance Excellence 

Community Memorial Healthcenter (CMH) is a rural, non-profit health system offering a broad array of healthcare services to its primary service area consisting of three south-central Virginia counties and one northern North Carolina County. Main services include Inpatient, Outpatient, Emergency, and Support Services. The main campus houses the inpatient facilities, outpatient surgical services, emergency, and all diagnostic services. Other locations house physician office practices, rural health clinics, a cancer and rehab center and other services. The CMH workforce includes 975 employees, over 200 volunteers, and 123 independent practitioners, representing 3 medical specialties.

Global Linguist Solutions (GLS) is a company created for, and dedicated to, providing human interpretation and translation services worldwide. GLS provides support to the U.S. Army in Iraq, the greater Gulf Region, and US-based customers. Formed in 2007, GLS is a relatively new company, with its headquarters located in Falls Church, VA. GLS workforce includes 233 employees in the US and abroad and subcontractor linguists. Staff consists of many former military personnel who have served multiple tours in war zones and as contractors in these areas. 

Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center is located in Richmond, VA. It has a 429 bed teaching hospital offering primary, secondary, and tertiary health care in medicine, surgery, neurology, mental health, rehabilitation, acute and sustaining spinal cord injury, skilled nursing care, and traumatic brain injury. The center provides services to active duty and retired veterans and their families. The center has 2,151 full-time equivalent employees (32% nursing staff, 31% administrative, 29% allied health staff, 8% physician and other practitioner staff). In addition, the center’s volunteers contributed over 99,000 hours of service in 2010.

Media Services Center (MSC) of the National Reconnaissance Organization is a US Intelligence Community (USIC) organization headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. MSC is staffed by approximately 100 people including detailed (that is, temporarily assigned) civilian employees from USIC agencies, military personnel on assigned tours of duty from Department of Defense (DOD) agencies, and contractors. MSC’s vision is to be the USIC’s choice for “Smart Media – the right message, the right way, at the right time.” To meet that vision, MSC provides products suiting their customers’ requirements for format and delivery mechanism. 

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