Individual unions

Worker Wins Support for Life-Altering Test

  • Cultivating a culture of partnership and freedom to speak up with new ideas
  • Enlisting a physician champion to approach the regional medical director
  • Researching the new technology, including its money-saving potential 

What can your team do to identify the barriers that stop employees from speaking up? What else could your team do to encourage everyone to share ideas, suggestions and concerns?

 

Why Speaking Up Matters

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VID-135_Why_Speaking_Up_Matters
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 This award-winning intensive care unit has built a #FreeToSpeak culture with interdisciplinary rounds on patients. Now the team has high morale, low turnover—and its patients suffer fewer hospital-acquired infections.

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"Me Tarzan, you Jane," as the model for doctor-nurse relationships? No thanks! This award-winning intensive care unit has built a #FreeToSpeak culture with interdisciplinary rounds on patients. As a result, the team has high morale, low turnover—and its patients suffer fewer hospital-acquired infections. 
 
 
Produced by Kellie Applen.
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Speak Up, Change a Life

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Here is a real example of the impact that an empowered worker had on our patients—starting with 8-year-old Lucy Scott.

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Here is a real example of the impact that an empowered worker had on our patients—starting with 8-year-old Lucy Scott.

 

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When the Game Changes, Change Your Game

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VID-133_when_the_game_Changes
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A unit-based team at Kaiser Permanente's Capitol Hill Medical Center in Washington, D.C. helps its department adjust to a big jump in membership--and improves patient care at the same time.

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This short video shows how a unit-based team at Kaiser Permanente's Capitol Hill Medical Center in Washington, D.C. is adjusting to a big jump in membership—and improving patient care at the same time.

 

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Get Up—Get Moving

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This short video shows Kaiser Permanente employees at a business office in Walnut Creek, Calif. take an Instant Recess® dance break every morning—almost without fail—in the parking lot.

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Non-LMP
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3:07
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This short video features Kaiser Permanente employees at a business office in Walnut Creek, Calif., who take an Instant Recess® dance break every morning—almost without fail—in the parking lot. 

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Coming In From the Cold Kellie Applen Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:03
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1:35
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An Inventory Operations unit-based team in the Mid-Atlantic States works together to drastically reduce outside deliveries of surgical instruments, furniture and other items, and prevent the dangerous and unsightly pile up of packages.

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How does one of the largest facilities in the Mid-Atlantic States' region manage deliveries without a loading dock? The Largo Medical Center's Inventory Operations unit-based team shares how it successfully tackled the problem. 

 

 

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How a Flu Shot Can Help Catch Cancer

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VID-118_flu_shot_catch_cancer
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Don’t be surprised to have your medical record checked when you walk in for a flu shot at Lakewood Medical Office in Denver, Colorado. Medical Imagining and the Flu Clinic teams worked together to identify patients who needed a mammogram.

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Jennifer Gladwell
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Tyra Ferlatte
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Kaiser Permanente members in Colorado got a little extra care and attention last year when they came for their flu shots at the Lakewood Medical Office. Medical Imagining and the Flu Clinic teams worked together to identify patients who needed a mammogram.

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Portraits in Partnership: A physician's point of view

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VID_116_POV_physician
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This video shows what it's like to work in Partnership at Kaiser Permanente from a physician's point of view.

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Tyra Ferlatte
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2:22
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With the advent of the Labor Management Partnership, the physician “is not in charge," but rather just “another perspective at the table,” says Brent Arnold, MD. Watch this short video to see one physician's perspective of the LMP.

 

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Portraits in Partnership: A union worker's point of view Kellie Applen Tue, 07/28/2015 - 13:28
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VID_114_POV_union_worker
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2:30
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This video shows what it's like to work in partnership at Kaiser Permanente from a union worker's point of view.

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Non-LMP
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Tyra Ferlatte
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When Lab Assistant Cher Gonzalez talks, her manager and facility leaders listen. That's just one of the many benefits, she says, of working in the Labor Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente. Watch this short piece to see a union worker's perspective of the LMP.

 

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