Healing the State

Healing the State introduces Lana Peister through more than two decades in nursing and through the habit at the center of that work: recognize the problem, understand what is affecting the whole, and begin making it better.

The film carries that idea beyond healthcare to the broader well-being of Nebraska’s 37th District. Schools, tax burdens, small businesses, family life and natural resources become parts of the same diagnosis. Moving between patient care, community streets, local business and the outdoors, the portrait connects Peister’s professional experience with the place she has spent most of her life serving.

The idea was not to turn a nurse into a politician. It was to show what public service can look like when caring for people is already the work.