Organizations like ours try to learn from our experiences, both the successful and not so successful ones. This is a way of assessing our effectiveness and sharing information. It is an important process for the growth of any organization. In doing so, we have recorded some of our learning process around the concept of a "learning history."

We went back to the source of the B.A.B.E. program - the people who created it, those who developed the concepts and formed the process for driving it, those who helped to implement and manage it, and those who participated. We tried to capture and convey the experience and insights of these people. The result of this new form of assessment, a Learning History, is put forth on the pages that follow. We believe that what we have learned will help you to develop and implement a successful B.A.B.E. program for your community or organization.

We hope that this learning history will help and encourage growth and development at whatever stage of life it finds your program. As B.A.B.E. has grown up, so have we, learning valuable lessons about our program and our community through the trials of time and the everyday.

Memorial Health System staff members are more than happy to answer any questions you have regarding this process. Please feel free to call us at (574)647-7115 for more information.

Phil Newbold

CEO, Memorial Hospital/Health System