Gallup announced the winners of its “Exceptional Workplace Award” for 2022, and Sarasota Memorial was one of only 41 organizations worldwide to make the list. This is the third time that Sarasota Memorial has won the prestigious Gallup award, which honors thriving organizations that have attained world-class performance by making employee engagement a cornerstone of their strategy. Gallup’s studies of team engagement and performance have found that highly engaged organizations significantly outperform their peers in important outcomes such as customer ratings, turnover, safety incidents, absenteeism, quality, well-being and organizational citizenship. To qualify for the 2022 award, organizations were required to meet rigorous criteria, including a high qualifying participation rate on Gallup’s 2021 employee engagement survey, and scores placing them at the top of Gallup's global database. They also had to demonstrate overall performance excellence. 2021 was the eighth year that Gallup — the internationally known research and polling organization — conducted an employee survey for Sarasota Memorial. SMH also won the Gallup workplace honor (previously known as the Great Workplace Award) in 2015 and 2018. Gallup’s survey, which contains key questions to measure staff’s engagement, has been administered to organizations around the world, and is based on decades of research across multiple diverse industries.