FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 6, 2025

OAKLAND, CA – Frontline healthcare workers from eight different Sutter Hospitals and Medical Centers across Northern California announced yesterday that they will hold a series of protests starting August 11, to demand solutions to chronic short staffing, shuttering of services in underserved areas, and wages that don’t keep up with inflation.

Healthcare workers at Sutter Health facilities in Oakland, Santa Rosa, Roseville, Berkeley, Lakeport, Vallejo, Antioch, Castro Valley, and San Francisco say years of low wages have led to high turnover rates. The resulting understaffing has forced employees to take on multiple roles, work long hours, and is creating burnout amongst caregivers who are stretched thin.

At the same time, Sutter Health has closed departments in facilities in lower-income areas such as San Francisco’s Mission Bernal campus, and is vowing to replace the aging Alta Bates Ashby campus with a smaller facility in Emeryville, resulting in a loss of services in the communities that need them the most. Meanwhile, Sutter is paying their corporate executives millions of dollars a year, including Sutter Health CEO Warner Thomas, who took home over $11 million in 2023.

“We keep hiring new people, but by the time we finish training them they are already moving on to a better paying job elsewhere,” said Andy Hurt, an Emergency Department Technician at Sutter Santa Rosa. “We are committed to our patients, and want to give the best care possible, but every day it feels like Sutter executives are asking us to do more with less. We are calling on Sutter executives to listen to the frontline healthcare workers, invest in their workforce, and work with us to provide the best patient care possible.”

Caregivers are calling on Sutter Health to invest in its healthcare staff by ensuring safe staffing levels, fair wages, and affordable healthcare. The frontline healthcare workers include nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, licensed vocational nurses, environmental services, cooks, technicians, and more.

Here is the full list labeled by date, time, and location.

8/11/2025

SANTA ROSA REGIONAL HOSPITAL

30 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, CA 95403

11:30 am – 1 pm

8/12/2025

LAKESIDE HOSPITAL

5176 Hill Rd E, Lakeport, CA 95453

11:30 am – 1 pm

8/14/2025

SOLANO MEDICAL CENTER

300 Hospital Dr Vallejo, CA 94589

11:30 am – 1 pm

8/18/2025

ALTA BATES SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER (ABSMC) – BERKELEY/ASHBY CAMPUS 

& ALTA BATES SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER (ABSMC) – SUMMIT CAMPUS – OAKLAND 

2450 Ashby Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705

350 Hawthorne Ave, Oakland, CA 94609

11:30 am – 1 pm AT BOTH LOCATIONS 

8/19/2025

ROSEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER

1 Medical Plaza Dr, Roseville, CA 95661

11:30 am – 1 pm

8/21/2025

CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER (CPMC)

3555 Cesar Chavez St. San Francisco, CA 94110

11:30 am – 1 pm

8/22/2025

EDEN MEDICAL CENTER

20103 Lake Chabot Rd Castro Valley, CA 94546

11:30 am – 1 pm

8/25/2025

DELTA MEDICAL CENTER

3901 Lone Tree Way Antioch, CA 94509

11:30 am – 1 pm

 

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SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is a healthcare justice union of more than 120,000 healthcare workers, patients, and healthcare activists united to ensure affordable, accessible, high-quality care for all Californians provided by valued and respected healthcare workers. Learn more at www.seiu-uhw.org.