The College of Health and Well-Being-Kintampo (CoHK) has received the International Star for Leadership in Quality (ISLQ) award in the gold category for 2013. The award was presented to the CoHK at the Gala Award Ceremony of the Leadership in Quality Convention held in Paris, France, last July.
The event was attended by diplomats, leaders in business, finance, the arts, academia, communication and the media. Beatton Magazine, published by Imagen Arte Imarpress, a Spanish Communication organization, presented the award as part of its activities to highlight and promote exemplary companies upholding the values of the Quality Convention (QC) 100 Total Quality Management (TQM) Model.
The award comes with benefits for recipients, and a primary one “Is the renewal of quality commitment through the QC100 TQM associated with the award and the sharing of quality culture internally and externally both through publicizing the news and the transmission of the values of quality management”. This implies that the institution would have to continue working hard to maintain its excellent achievement.
Speaking to journalists at Kintampo in the Brong-Ahafo Region on Tuesday, Dr Emmanuel Teye Adjase, Director of CoHK, said “along with other services, the ISLQ award serves to promote local, national and international leaders in recognition of their growth, innovation, technological development and leadership in quality and excellence’’.
He said Imagen Arte Imarpress has been celebrating quality through these conventions annually since 1986, by awarding businesses and organisations from all over the world in recognition of commitment to quality management, excellence and innovation.
Imarpress’ international structure of experts in business communication comprises engineers, physicists, mathematicians, economists, psychologists, journalists, designers and architects.
In selection and short listing of potential awardees, the team of experts, undertake rigorous research into segments of public and private information sources like the media, publications, advertising, trade fairs and exhibitions, consultancy companies, universities, chamber of commerce, embassies and their commercial offices.
The CoHK, previously known as Kintampo Rural Health Training School, started as a Ministry of Health training institution in 1969, to train middle -level health professionals to provide quality and comprehensive health care to the people, especially those living in the rural and under-served areas of the country.
