August 2010

Dear KPNAA Members,

As your President for June 2010-2011, I look forward to meeting and working with many of you over the next year.  I have been a CRNA at Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center for the past 10 years and have been active with KPNAA for the past seven years.  I participated in our last contract negotiations and am happy to report that we have successfully ratified our National Agreement to be in effect from October 2010-October 2012.  Our Local Agreement will be extended an additional two years until September 2014.  Thank you to those of you who took the time to vote.

As for my background, I graduated from the Kaiser Permanente School of Anesthesia in 2000 and have since met many of our KPNAA members. I am married to a KPNAA CRNA who works at our Orange County facility, and have two boys ages 6 and 8.  We just bought and moved to a new home in Yorba Linda in July.  Needless to say I have my hands full, but I am committed to representing KPNAA to the best of my abilities.  My goal as your President is to show Kaiser Permanente the value of CRNAs and secure our positions with in this organization.

I will be working closely with the Executive Committee (EC) and facility representatives to get Anesthesia UBTs up and running at each facility.  The EC and I would also like to showcase and share facility best practices at each Joint Association Management Committee (JAMCO) meeting.  So if your facility is doing something that works really well in your department, have your JAMCO representative bring this to our attention and share at our next JAMCO meeting.

Hope to see many of you at the Fall CANA meeting on Oct.8-10.

Respectfully,