Hospital owners like Prime Healthcare, which owns Centinela Hospital, are price gouging consumers–and today SEIU-UHW members in Southern California started doing something about it!
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Everybody is Talking About . . . Outrageous Hospital Prices: UHW in the News
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for SEIU-UHW members, who are taking their campaign to build a healthier California all over the state. Members began signature gathering for two state-wide ballot initiatives and one local initiative, all of which …
NEWS: Healthcare Workers Crisscross the State Gaining Support for Initiatives to End Hospital Price Gouging, Increase Charity Care
Caregivers and Community Leaders Start Signature Drive in Southern California at Centinela Hospital For Immediate Release: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Contact: Elizabeth Brennan at 213-999-2164 or David Tokaji at 213-300-8892 LOS ANGELES – Healthcare workers are gaining momentum across the …
Telecare La Casa Workers Said Yes!
As nearly 200 mental healthcare workers seeking to improve staffing and patient care at Telecare La Casa in Long Beach, we voted to join SEIU-UHW on February 8, 2012.
SEIU-UHW Members Take on Outrageous Hospital Prices
70 healthcare workers gathered in front of Sutter General Hospital in Sacramento to call attention to Sutter’s outrageous overcharging for basic medical supplies and to launch a signature gathering campaign for a ballot initiative that would put a stop to hospital price gouging.
Governor’s Office Joins SEIU-UHW Executive Board Meeting
California Secretary of Health and Human Services Diana Dooley announced the support of Gov. Jerry Brown for Let’s Get Healthy California! via video conference to our SEIU-UHW Executive Board meeting.
San Francisco Chronicle Reports on Ballot Initiatives
San Francisco Chronicle: Hospital union backs initiatives on prices, care By Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle, Friday Feb 3, 2012 Sacramento — Hospitals in California and their union employees are poised for battle in November over the prices hospitals charge …
BLOG: “A $30,000 bill and a lien on my house and I have insurance.”
In 2004 my daughter was admitted to Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland. It was a scary time and I was most concerned about her health and making sure she had the best care, which she did, but when the ordeal was over I was billed $30,000…. and I have insurance!
In Memory of Mustafa “Hawk” Tahjuddin
Mustafa “Hawk” Tahjuddin passed away Jan. 30. Hawk was a long-time organizer for UHW. He will be remembered with fondness and respect.
BLOG: Patient and Caregiver Safety Goes Hollywood
Today my SEIU-UHW coworkers and I brought our fight for patient and caregiver safety to the streets in front of our facility, Hollywood Community Hospital.
SEIU-UHW Members’ Recommendations For a Better Home Care System
This year, we’re focusing on building a better future for home care. SEIU-UHW members have had thousands of conversations about how to improve the home care system. Also, more than 30,000 in-home caregivers participated in an teleconference town hall hosted …
NEWS: Judge Continues to Halt Home Care Cuts
After a ruling by United States District Court Judge Claudia A. Wilken that keeps in place the injunction barring implementation the 20 percent cut to the state’s In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program.
SEIU-UHW Members Send Strong Message to El Camino Management
Almost a week after SEIU-UHW members turned out in record numbers to vote, the results are decisive: Workers overwhelmingly voted 599 – 357 to keep SEIU-UHW as their union.
El Camino Hospital Stalls Election Ballot Count in Face of Loss
SEIU-UHW members turned out in record numbers to keep SEIU-UHW as their union on Thursday, January 5th–but the ballots weren’t counted as planned. Unable to face yet another loss–El Camino Hospital management broke state labor law (again) and refused to …
NEWS: Caregivers Promise to Fight Destructive Cuts and Work to Pass Better Solutions
SEIU Statement on Proposed IHSS Budget FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 6, 2012 Contact: Michael Cox, (916) 799-6784 Nathan Selzer, (510) 869-2252 OAKLAND, CA – The following statement is from Dave Regan, President of SEIU-UHW, in response to the Governor’s 2012-2013 …
Pop Quiz: Is sharing medical records with a newspaper a HIPAA violation?
An LA Times column has revealed that Prime Healthcare hospital directors didn’t like what a patient said about their hospital so they brought her private medical records to the local newspaper. Find out what you can do to blow the whistle on Prime.
2011: Bold New Leadership, Renewed Focus
Read a holiday message for SEIU-UHW members and rest up! We’ve done a lot this year and we will be even more ambitious next year. We’ve only just begun!
More News Investigations Into Prime: “We’re holding Prime accountable.”
Several new media investigations back up SEIU-UHW workers by exposing Prime’s bad business practices.
SEIU-UHW El Camino Members Speak Out
On Election Day, January 5, 2012, our clear choice is YES to keep our union. A majority of us are voting YES to protect our benefits, wages, job security and our families’ futures. “We finally have an election date at …
Obama Administration Expands Wage Protection to Home Care Workers
President Obama announced a proposal today to change the Fair Labor Standards Act to give in-home caregivers minimum wage and overtime pay protection. If enacted the change would impact roughly 2 million in-home caregivers throughout the country, many of whom …