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We were off again in March to the Peachtree State: Georgia. KP Georgia employees are some of the friendliest you’ll meet. First stop was “Coffee and Conversation” with Regional President Peter Andruszkiewicz (also known as “Peter A.”) and Dr. Rob Schreiner, the executive medical director of the region.

Bridget Hurley’s Gang of Four (Plan, Do, Study, Act) will help you get through life’s small tests of change. Hurley, national LMP coordinator for performance improvement, helps union delegates delve deeper into the well-known cycle that drives their work in unit-based teams.

That’s right—Hawai’i! We were in Honolulu in July to launch the LMP training and education for the newest partner union,  the Hawai’i Nurses’ Association (HNA), along with managers and physicians in the region. We arrived to HEAT and HUMIDITY! (Maybe flying from Denver, the Mile-High city, down to sea-level had something to do with it.)

We had three full days at the Moanalua Medical Center thanks to Janet Liang, president of the Hawai’i Region, and her team.

So there we were, in Atlanta, going the wrong way on a four-lane highway. (Is this starting to sound familiar?) Not that it matters, but Paul was driving…and we had GPS!

After a dinner meeting (the steak special is  half-priced, if ordered by 6:00) with Jenee Dixon and Dawn Bading, the regional co-leads in charge of unit-based team implementation, things were looking up.