engagement

Kaiser Permanente has been honored by the National Business Group on Health (NBGH), a nonprofit association of large U.S. employers, for our commitment and dedication to promoting a healthy workplace and encouraging our workers and families to support and maintain healthy lifestyles.

The latest headlines from the world of health care can be depressing.  Increases in morbid obesity amongst our children, adult onset diabetes, lung cancer and asthma are on the rise along with a ballooning, aging population.

Headlines decrying drastic cuts to public health services and Medicare and Social Security funds blare at us.

Here’s something really scary: predictions of decreases in numbers of skilled health care workers are already coming to pass. We are seeing fewer and fewer medical students picking primary care as their field of choice.

On to the Peach State in May. We wish that everyone could meet some of the great people we get the pleasure to encounter. Among them: Dawn Bading, vice president of human resources and her Coalition partner, National Coordinator Jenee Dixon, Peter Andruszkiewicz, president of the Georgia Region, Rob Schreiner, MD, executive medical director, Chief Operations Officer Sally Sidwell and Rick Brown of the United Food and Commercial Workers. UBT regional co-leads Frances Monteiro and Ally Neighbors have a clear understanding of the importance of frontline engagement.