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...
In a September 16, 2015press releaseKaiser’s public relations people claimed that: “Kaiser Permanente’s significant hiring of mental health therapists comes during an overall shortage of these professionals in the U.S. According to an April 2015 report by the National Alliance on Mental Illness...
Thousands of mental health clinicians with Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente are planning to strike, according to the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). California The statewide, weeklong strike, which involves 2600 psychologists, therapists, and social workers represented by the...
Outside Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area, dozens of workers marched Monday holding signs that read "Kaiser, Don't Deny My Patients Mental Health Care," and "Care Delayed is Care Denied." About 4,000 psychologists, therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurs...
Four thousand psychologists, therapists and other medical professionals are striking at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California Nov. 11–15 to demand that the health maintenance organization demonstrate good faith and fix its broken mental health system that leaves patients waiting up to three ...
A planned five-day strike by 4,000 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, mental health therapists and other medical professionals, originally to have started Monday, has been postponed in acknowledgement of the death Sunday of Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson. ...
Kaiser Permanente has "taken important steps to help address the nation’s crisis in mental health care – hiring hundreds of new therapists, building new treatment facilities, and investing $40 million to help people enter the mental health care profession. A strike does nothing to advance our ...
Kaiser defended itself in an emailed response to KTVU and said that it supports the aim of SB 221 and calls the implementation "challenging for all health plans not just Kaiser Permanente" Kaiser also pointed to a lack of mental heal professional calling it "real and well documented" and say...
Kaiser Permanente is integrating telehealth and connected health strategies in behavioral healthcare through digital therapeutic referrals from providers. Physicians and therapists can now refer Kaiser Permanente patients to mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy apps through the organizatio...
"It is disappointing that once again, the leadership of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) is calling on our mental health therapists to walk away from their patients," said Annie Russell, CEO for Southern California Permanente Group. "This planned strike does not make sense given...