IAEP National staff and Local 400 Executive Board members met with Lawrence General Hospital’s (LGH) new president and CEO on Monday to bridge new connections and strategize on both employee and patient needs.
IAEP National Negotiator Richard Anderson, National Representative Peter Zera, Local 400 President Jim Farely, Vice President Chris Locapo, and Secretary John Brophy sat down with Dr. Abha Agrawal, who was appointed as the president and CEO of the hospital in January.
During the meeting, the IAEP team and Agrawal discussed operational aspects of LGH EMS, routine employer-employee relations and future protocol roll-outs such as the capability of carrying whole blood for field transfusions.
"It was a rare pleasure to have a newly seated hospital CEO request a meeting with representatives of its EMS staff,” said Zera. “Dr. Agrawal's meeting with Local leadership allowed for members' concerns to be heard- with an emphasis being placed on the challenges facing the area's EMS and what Lawrence General could do to bolster staffing in particular."
Agrawal is a practicing internal medicine physician, clinical informaticist and author, who served as chief medical officer of Humboldt Park Health in Chicago before joining LGH this year.
Local 400 is hopeful of a continued, symbiotic relationship with Agrawal and her leadership team.
"It is exciting and promising to see union leadership starting off on the right foot with the hospital's new administration,” said Zera.
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