These values were used to designate improvement priority among the various dimensions.
Imperial College healthcare NHS trust was designated "requires improvement" last December, with concerns over cleanliness, weaknesses in the safety culture and "markedly varied" leadership in its hospitals.
Collingswood is one of 53 towns in the state, including Red Bank, Atlantic City, Elizabeth, Cranford, Clifton and Freehold, that have designated special improvement districts.
The portion of Lock Street between county-maintained Hemphill Street and the northern junction with MD 284 was part of the original Cecilton Elkton highway passing through Chesapeake City that was designated for improvement by the Maryland State Roads Commission in 1909.
In 2007, when C. Vivian Stringer agreed to a new deal with Rutgers, the contract noted that she could upgrade the women's basketball locker room and offices of her assistants with capital improvements funds in which she "played a substantial role in the identification and solicitation of the donor and where the donor has designated capital improvements for the women's basketball program".
Anointed by Ryan as a starter at defensive end — unless, perhaps, the Jets re-sign Shaun Ellis — Wilkerson is expected to boost the team's pass rush, which is one area that Pettine did not specifically designate for improvement.
Mr. Allen said there was no internal struggle over direction at the company, which is based in Bentonville, Ark., but he added that certain areas within Wal-Mart had been designated lately for improvement.
It expects to issue $15 million more in 30-year loans to upgrade some of the smaller mixed-use properties in the neighborhood, which the city designated a business improvement district three years ago.
In virtually every state, schools designated as needing improvement include chaotic ones that may need a total overhaul but also many others where only one or two groups' scores — perhaps the results of disabled students — have fallen short.
Ethics approval was waived by the Hunter New England Research Ethics Committee as the study was designated a quality improvement exercise.
