William Roper Quotations

Janet Corrigan is the ideal person to lead the newly reconstituted NQF. She has extensive experience working with diverse leaders across the public and private sectors, and a track record in developing widespread consensus around strategies to move the quality agenda forward.

Janet Corrigan is the ideal person to lead the newly reconstituted NQF, Janet's leadership vision and ability to bring diverse interests together to work for quality will help to make NQF even more effective as a key partner in quality -- and we are looking forward to working with her.

We need to do about twice as good as we did last year to in any way be satisfied. While we are pleased at things thus far, we have a substantial way to go.

Bob and I have had a splendid, happy working relationship in which, in every respect, he has run the school. He has been deeply involved in everything we do here. We will miss him tremendously.

These are very preliminary findings. We're going to be doing a lot of work on this over the next day or however long it takes. But until the answers are more definitive, we want to pursue all other possible leads.

Other places have come asking for him. But Wisconsin is a wonderful university, and the medical complex is strong. Bob's talents will be put to very good use there.

After two years in the red, we had a substantial turn between '04 and '05, and the first quarter of '06 is similarly positive. We are very encouraged about the long term.

The major thing we want to do going forward is grow patient volume and therefore grow top line revenue. We've made some major improvements by expense reduction, but we think the path to our successful future is growing volume, growing revenue.