IMRF Honored at ILPEx Ceremony

IMRF awarded 2014 ILPEx Silver Award for “Progress towards Excellence"

On March 26, 2015, IMRF Board of Trustees President John Piechocinski, Executive Director Louis W. Kosiba, and Deputy Director Dan Duquette, accepted the 2014 Illinois Performance Excellence (ILPEx) Silver Award for "Progress towards Excellence." The award recognized IMRF for its commitment to outstanding customer service and continuous improvement.

ILPEx was founded in 1994 to nurture, develop and highlight excellence by bringing individuals and organizations together, to learn from each other, to share best practices for organizational change and process improvement. As a 501 (c)(3), ILPEx's mission is to advance Illinois organizations' capability and knowledge of performance excellence by delivering consultation, instruction and assessments based on the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.

The award ceremony also honored Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Gold Award for "Achievement of Excellence"); American College of Healthcare Executives and the Health Research & Educational Trust (Silver Awards for "Progress towards Excellence"); and Community Consolidated School District 93 and Concentric Rockford, Inc. (Bronze Awards for "Commitment to Excellence").