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UBTs can help physicians achieve their clinical goals and improve their efficiency, according to The Permanente Journal. 

The San Diego Nuclear Medicine team discovered that the premise of their first performance improvement project—high repeats of heart scans—was not the problem they initially suspected. Above, assistant technologist and labor co-lead Jessica Larson (left) and technologist Christine Cook (right) assist patient Robert Evans. Larson and Cook are members of OPEIU Local 30.

The diagnostic imaging department at the Woodland Hills Medical Center is improving workflow and boosting attendance by drawing on the wide experience of its team members.

Navneet Maan (center) , flanked by two colleagues, helps UBTs keep their focus on the things that matter for our patients and members. 

High-performing teams, like this critical care team in Baldwin Park Medical Center, are the key to improving and sustaining the quality and affordability of U.S. health care.

Rick Senneway, director of performance improvement, Navneet Maan, UBT consultant, and Lorie Kocsis, union partnership representative (left to right) have helped Fresno create a facility-wide UBT strategy. 

Many of Panorama City's unit-based teams are adept at using data to track what's working and what's not; pictured here is Emma Yabut, RN, a UNAC/UHCP member, who is a member of the NICU unit-based team. 

How to Implement a Facility-Wide UBT Strategy

Helen Bevan, a leader of the UK's National Healthcare Services, discusses how leaders can use the strategies of people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela to create the large-scale transformation necessary to meet current health care challenges.

Dory Schutte, OFNHP member and a co-lead of the Women and Newborn Care UBT at Sunnyside Medical Center in the Northwest.

Sponsors Joseph Gonzales, senior radiology manager, and Rebecca Torres, pharmacy technician and SEIU Local 105 member