This is Patt Gibbs, Executive Director for Hawaii Nurses Association. HNA and the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific have reached a tentative agreement.

We are pleased to announce that ratification meetings will be held commencing tomorrow, Tuesday, February 24th. We are very proud of our HNA RN's and their negotiating team and congratulations to all of you. Please check the website for more details concerning the dates, times, and locations of the ratification meetings.

Attention Kaiser Permanente Hawaii nurses. We have posted on the Kaiser page, a letter from myself, as well as a list of forum meeting dates and times that are being conducted by Kaiser Management. We encourage all Kaiser nurses to attend one of these important meetings.

Molokai General, RN, Gail Crabbe, and member of the HNA Board of Directors, will be an HNA featured speaker at the National Labor Assembly in Washington D.C. for our national union, United American Nurses.

We're proud of Gail because she not only comes from one of our smaller facilities from the state of Hawaii but she also comes from one of the neighbor islands.

Congratulations Gail, we‘re proud of you and we know all HNA members are.