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32 training. During the week, Haelin teaches a variety of classes, trains small groups and helps with everything behind the scenes of owning a business. They are working to open a second location later this fall in Windsor, Colorado. Haelin is also working on her own online fitness coaching business so she can help as many people as possible. While in school at CMU, Haelin played intramural volleyball and taught a variety of group exercise classes. She loved the SUBMIT YOUR CLASS NOTE TODAY. Keep your friends, classmates and the CMU Alumni Association up-to- date by submitting a Class Note. Visit SupportingCMU.org/alumni/class-notes to tell us what's new with you! positive environment and community at the CMU Hamilton Recreation Center. Haelin said she truly misses all of her former students who attended her group exercise classes. In Memoriam Woody Tanner, '63; Gregory Pacot, '83; Kevin Seidl, '12; Bery Tack, '12 STREAMLINING THE CONTINUUM OF CARE Barbara Hocking, '82 By Sharon Sullivan Barbara Hocking, PhD, went to St. Luke's Boise Medical Center as a consultant last February to help the hospital improve its "continuum of care" so patients would experience smooth transitions as they moved through the medical system. When it came time to leave Boise, Hocking was asked to stay as the hospital's new chief nursing officer, so she would be able to complete several projects she helped initiate earlier in the year. The alumna demonstrated leadership qualities early on as a member of Mesa's first graduating class of nursing students in 1982. She co-founded the Mesa Student Nurses Association, the existence of which was a requirement for the program's accreditation with the National League of Nursing. "I had a wonderful experience at Mesa State College," Hocking said. "The professors were phenomenal. They were collaborative. They lived to create this fabulous program and help students succeed." Hocking has worked in Grand Junction, Chicago and Boston overseeing a variety of clinics and departments. She assisted in operating rooms; worked as a rehabilitation nurse; and "You can influence the fluidity, create a collaborative practice, so the patient feels it's a seamless process as they move through the continuum of care, which usually involves many different departments," Hocking said. She encourages such collaboration at St. Luke's where several department heads report regularly to Hocking. In her free time, Hocking enjoys running marathons, sewing and reading. She has one son who is a pro-golfer turned yoga instructor with a studio in upstate New York. • worked in critical care, home care and hospice. In Boston and Chicago, she was instrumental in the start-up of two cardiovascular surgery programs. In 2005, after earning a master's degree in public administration from the University of Colorado and a Doctorate in Education from Boston University, with a focus on creating new programs to help healthcare improve and evolve, Hocking founded a small consulting company. Hospitals in Illinois, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Kansas, Alaska and Idaho have consulted with Hocking to create new programs.