Stories

Savings added up quickly when this Oncology team in the Northwest paid close attention to which tubing it used for IVs; shown is Randi Norton, an RN and member of OFNHP.

Team co-leads Anthony Pender and Adwoa Kese, a member of OPEIU Local 2. 

Unit-based teams are continuously improving quality, service and affordability at the front lines of care.

Njoki Maina, a senior lab assistant and SEIU UHW member, works in the lab at Santa Rosa Medical Center lab, which saved money by reducing its use of butterfly needles.

At the Fremont Medical Center in Northern California, the OR team took business literacy training and instantly started looking for ways to save money. Co-leads Yolanda Gho, Operating Room nurse manager, and surgical tech Gus Garcia, an SEIU UHW steward, say the training inspired their team to do better.

Cara Boyce, a financial services coordinator and OPEIU Local 2 member

UBT co-leads Yoland Gho, Fremont operating room nurse manager, and Gus Garcia, surgical tech and SEIU-UHW steward

Isolina Pistoessi, Adult Primary Care RN, Falls Church, Va.

Some members of the Franklin Head and Neck unit-based team. 

It took some teamwork to tackle this paperwork backlog. 

Nurses go green in Hawaii. 

Blue wrap recycling in the operating room at the Sand Canyon Surgicenter