Employees Want More PPE, Staffing, and Other Policies
to Increase Workplace Protections During Pandemic

Workers at 11 Tenet Healthcare hospitals in California will picket their facilities this week to demand improvements to health and safety conditions in their facilities as they continue to risk their lives caring for patients with COVID-19.

“I’m scared to come to work knowing I could be exposed to COVID-19,” said Gisella Thomas, a respiratory therapist at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs. “Our health, our patients’ health, our families’ the health, and health of our communities are all impacted when healthcare workers are exposed to COVID at work. That’s why we’re asking for more PPE, more staffing, and other improvements to health and safety at our hospitals.”

Pickets will take place at the following times and locations.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26

JOSHUA TREE: High Desert Medical Center, 6601 White Feather Rd. –
11 a.m. to noon.

MANTECA: Doctors Hospital of Manteca, 1205 E. North St. –
11 a.m. to noon.

TURLOCK: Emanuel Medical Center, 825 Delbon Ave. –

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27

PALM SPRINGS: Desert Regional Medical Center, 1150 N. Indian Canyon Dr. –
11 a.m. to noon.

SAN RAMON: San Ramon Regional Medical Center, 6001 Norris Canyon Rd. –
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

LOS ALAMITOS: Los Alamitos Medical Center, 3751 Katella Ave.
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

TEMPLETON: Twin Cities Community Hospital, 1100 Las Tablas Rd. –
1 p.m. to 5 p.m

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28

INDIO: John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, 47111 Monroe St. –
11 a.m. to noon.

LAKEWOOD: Lakewood Regional Medical Center, 3700 E. South St. –
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

MODESTO: Doctors Medical Center, 1441 Florida Ave. –
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

SAN LUIS OBISPO: Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, 1010 Murray Ave. –
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is one of the largest unions of hospital workers in the United States, with 97,000 members. Learn more at www.seiu-uhw.org.