Mary Lanning Healthcare recently was named one of the world’s top organizations in engaging its workforce. This is the seventh time MLH has won the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, formerly known as the Gallup Great Workplace Award.
The award recognized Mary Lanning Healthcare for its ability to create an engaged workplace culture. Only a few organizations in the world are invited to apply for this award each year.
Bruce Cutright, MLH Vice President of Human Resources, said the award says a lot about the effort Mary Lanning employees have put into improving engagement at MLH, despite the challenges and trials of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past few years.
“At Mary Lanning Healthcare, high engagement translates directly into high patient satisfaction and better care for our patients,” Cutright said. “During the pandemic, the employees did not give up on the culture we have built over the years.”
Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award winners must meet several criteria including having employees participate in the Gallup Q12 survey and a demonstrated link between engagement and business outcomes. Other winners of the 2022 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award include Verizon, Progres- sive, DTE Energy and Mars, Inc.
The Gallup panel stated: “While 2021 was certainly a trying year for many organizations, especially hospitals across the board, the award fundamentally recognizes that high-performing workplaces are those that have the highest percentage of managers delivering best practices in engagement. Based on your scores and on the panel’s consideration of your application, there are pockets of excellence at Mary Lanning and those pockets push everyone at the hospital to be the best version of themselves. Relative to other organizations, your organization’s culture, commitment to Strengths, wellbeing and embedding engagement were a superior match to Gallup’s criteria.”
Eric Barber, MLH President & CEO, said this prestigious award shows that MLH employees have a commitment to healthcare and patients even in light of a pandemic.
“We congratulate our employees on staying engaged even through hard times,” Barber said. “We will use this award not as a stopping point, but as a standard by which to measure continued ef- forts.”