More than 2,400Kaiser Permanentepsychologists, therapists, social workers, and othermental health workersin Southern California began an open-endedstrikeMonday over increased workloads and staffing shortages that their union said have created a “substandard” system of care. The National Union of Healt...
Nearly 2,400 mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities went on strike Monday amid contract talks and allegations of a "broken" system of care, while Kaiser officials say the union has been "slow walking" the negotiation process and planned to strike before labo...
Kaiser Strike Puts Mental Health Clinicians on Picket LinesParr, Rebecca
"Trail of death": Staffing crisis sparks largest health care strike in U.S. history Kaiser health care workers on the picket line outside of a Kaiser Permanente facility in Sacramento, Calif. It is the largest medical care worker strike in U.S. history. Advertisement: 1....
The statewide, weeklong strike, which involves 2600 psychologists, therapists, and social workers represented by the NUHW, is slated to begin January 12. The workers claim Kaiser has not provided members with mental health services that are good and timely, and specifically, that Kaiser does no...
The strike, which had been scheduled to go from Monday, Nov. 11 to Friday, Nov. 15, would have shut down mental health services at more than 100 Kaiser clinics and medical facilities from San Diego to Sacramento. Tyson, 60, died in his sleep early Sunday morning. He had been Kaiser's...
Gaskill-Hames said in a statement that although nurses weren't on strike, they decided to join the mental health therapists walking the picket line, which has now impacted medical services. "Not all surgeries are being postponed. Surgeries are dependent upon appropriate staffing," Gaskill-Hames ...
The strike would have shuttered mental health services at roughly 100 facilities.Facebook Twitter Comments Print Email By Evie Fordham FOXBusinessVideo More than 4,000 psychologists and other medical professionals postponed their strike against health care provider Kaiser Permanente indefinitely following ...
” Instead they cut mental health services even further than their appalling baseline levels. Kaiser orders their psychiatrists (MD owners of Kaiser who don’t strike) and managers (who can’t strike) to cover emergency services and lets everything else fall by the wayside. Early evidence that...
摘要: Hundreds of Kaiser Permanent's mental health professionals plan to go on a weeklong strike in California starting Jan. 12 to protest what they say is the health care provider's failure to offer timely, quality mental health care.