Jennifer Fels, RN, MSN, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center’s director of utilization management and clinical documentation improvement and the director of Bennington Blueprint for United Health Alliance, has been named to the Board of Examiners for the 2016 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award by the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Baldrige Award is the nation’s highest honor for organizational innovation and performance excellence.

Three Vermont CEOs recently graduated from the Babson Cohort of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, a national program created to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic opportunity by providing greater access to education, capital, and business support services (completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program:) Francie Williams Caccavo of Olivia's Crouton Company, Doug Hartwell of Bitybean, and Julie Lineberger of LineSync Architecture completed the blended online and face­-to­-face program that delivers intensive entrepreneurship training and practical training from Bab