Organizations receiving the Ohio Partnership for Excellence January 08, 2007 COLUMBUS, Ohio The Ohio Partnership for Excellence (OPE), the state's premier quality award program, announced today that Riverside Methodist Hospitals, located in Columbus, Ohio, has received the Governor's Award for Excellence for being an “outstanding example of excellence in the state of Ohio, and for exhibiting ‘world class’ processes that serve as role models for others.” The Achievement of Excellence award, an advanced level of recognition for organizations demonstrating through commitment and practice, significant progress toward excellence will be presented to the following organizations: Acheivement of Excellence Flower Hospital – Sylvania, Ohio Ferguson Metals, Inc. – Hamilton, Ohio Ohio Department of Transportation, District 4 – Akron, Ohio The Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area – Toledo, Ohio Lorain County Community College – Elyria, Ohio Butler Technology and Career Development Schools – Fairfield Township, OH   For more information on this Press Release, contact Tracy Messana, Special Assistant to the Director, at (614) 441-8337 or by e-mail. All organizations face hurdles, some become great, some stumble and sway, others just fade away. Great organizations are able to create a culture of excellence. They create a way of doing business that sees past the short term day-to-day struggle to a long-term, sustainable vision of excellence.