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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.
Affordable Health Care for All
UBTs help bottom line by cutting waste and boosting service.
January 29, 2013
UBT co-leads Yoland Gho, Fremont operating room nurse manager, and Gus Garcia, surgical tech and SEIU-UHW steward
Peer Advice: Red Bad, Black Good
OR team reduces supply waste and saves $34,000 a year.
January 28, 2013
Cara Boyce, a financial services coordinator and OPEIU Local 2 member
Closing a Financial Gap
A collaboration that put to stop to costly errors and fraud.
Isolina Pistoessi, Adult Primary Care RN, Falls Church, Va.
Around the Regions (Winter 2013)
Quick hits on work being done in partnership to save lives.
January 1, 2013
Gena Bailey, a service area director and UBT sponsor in the Northwest, and Melissa Garan, a medical assistant and SEIU Local 49 member
The Sponsorship Dilemma
The importance and challenges of UBT sponsorship.
November 8, 2012
Andrea Badellebess, OPEIU Local 29 labor liaison, and a labor sponsor of unit-based teams, talks about what it means to be a "family team."
Labor Sponsor Profile: Andrea Badellebess
What it means to be a family team.
Linda J. Bodell, Director, Clinical Care, Fontana Medical Center (Southern California)
Manager Sponsor Profile: Linda J. Bodell
What teams need from sponsors.
Some members of the Franklin Head and Neck unit-based team.
Keeping Better Track of Your Surgical Instruments
See how UBT saves thousands.
November 1, 2012
Sponsors Joseph Gonzales, senior radiology manager, and Rebecca Torres, pharmacy technician and SEIU Local 105 member
Around the Regions (Fall 2012)
Eight quick hits on work being done in partnership.
By building their business literacy, employees can connect their efforts to provide excellent service to the larger goals of Kaiser Permanente.
Connecting the Dots With Popular Education
Keep your students riveted.
August 29, 2012
Dory Schutte, OFNHP member and a co-lead of the Women and Newborn Care UBT at Sunnyside Medical Center in the Northwest.
Around the Regions (Summer 2012)
Work being done in partnership.
August 24, 2012
Joan Mah of Northern California (above), an optometrist, senior UBT consultant, and IFPTE Local 20 steward and vice president, was a first-time observer at the 2012 bargaining sessions.
Where No One Has Gone Before
How the new National Agreement was crafted.