The Boston Globe names Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates to Globe 100’s Top Places to Work ‘09

Newton, MA - (November 10, 2009) - Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a multi-specialty physician group serving 460,000 adults and children at 20 practice sites throughout eastern Massachusetts, has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe.  This is the second consecutive year that Harvard Vanguard has been named to the list.  Online, the report can be found at www.boston.com/topworkplaces.

Produced by the same team that compiles the 22-year-old Globe 100 report of the best-performing public companies in Massachusetts, the Top Places to Work recognizes the most progressive companies in the state based on employee opinions about company leadership, compensation and training, diversity/inclusion, career development, family-friendly flexibility, and values and ethics. Private companies and nonprofits as well as publicly-held businesses were included in the analysis.

The rankings in the Globe 100’s Top Places to Work are based on survey information collected by Workplace Dynamics, an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention, from 86,000 employees at 269 Massachusetts organizations. This marks the second year that a Globe 100 report has honored private as well as publicly-held organizations.

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates was ranked 82nd on the overall list.

“This is the best form of recognition since it is based on the feedback of our own employees who are truly the cornerstone of what makes Harvard Vanguard a top place to work. Our people are our most valuable asset in our mission to make it easier for our patients to be healthy,” said Dr. Gene Lindsey, president and CEO of Harvard Vanguard.

The publisher of The Boston Globe Steve Ainsley stated, “The companies included in the Globe 100’s Top Places to Work have succeeded in creating a positive workplace for their employees in the midst of the uncertainties of the general economy. I congratulate each of them for an outstanding accomplishment.”

To qualify for the Globe 100’s Top Places to Work, a company must have more than 100 employees in Massachusetts. Nearly 1,000 qualified companies accepted an invitation to participate. Rankings were composite scores calculated purely on the basis of employee responses.