Nurses to Sutter: ‘We Won’t Back Down’
Nurses at Burlingame's Mills-Peninsula Medical Center joined those at eight other hospitals throughout the state in protest of Sutter Health. —San Mateo Patch, 05/02/12 More »
News — California
S.F. Hospital Deal Could Raise Health Care Costs
While the mayor has lauded the complex, 229-page agreement as a jobs generator that will bring the city's hospital network into the 21st century, the deal has raised concerns about how much of the $2.5 billion construction project will be passed on to consumers. More »
Kaiser Nurses Protest Plans to Close Hayward Pediatric Unit
Nurses in Hayward are protesting plans to close a Kaiser Permanente inpatient pediatric unit. Listen to the audio clip that aired this morning: —KQED - NPR, 04/18/12 More »
Nurses Say Kaiser Will Make Kids Drive Too Far For Hospital Care
Protestors in Hayward say that when a pediatric hospital wing in that city is closed in 2014, a new kid's hospital unit should be opened in San Leandro. —Union City Patch , 04/18/12 More »
Palomar Health Chief Exec’s Wages Land At No. 2 In State
DeAnn McEwen, co-president of the California Nurses Association, said the district has laid off workers and pushed back the opening of clinics in Ramona and Valley Center. “To support that kind of salary, I think it’s unconscionable,” McEwen said. “They are holding back on what the voters are paying for.” More »
Henry Mayo RNs To Protest ‘Team Nursing’ With Candlelight Vigil
VALENCIA (CBS) — Nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital will hold a candlelight vigil Wednesday night to protest policies they say are undermining patient care. —CBS Los Angeles, 02/29/12 More »
John Nichols Talks to CNA/NNU About His New Book, Uprising
Photos from the event held at California Nurses Association’s office on Tuesday night. John Nichols – author of Uprising – spoke about how the Wisconsin movement began and how the people continue the fight today. He give props to nurses for bringing more energy to the efforts by demanding no concessions. —NNU News, 02/22/12 More »
Saint John’s Nurses To Picket Thursday
On Thursday, from 8 to 11 a.m., Saint John’s Hospital nurses will hold an informational picket on Santa Monica Boulevard between 23rd and 20th Streets. —Santa Monica Dispatch, 02/14/12 More »
Nurses flex their political muscle in Sacramento and across California
Rose Ann DeMoro is always ready for another fight. And why not? During the past decade, the leader of the California Nurses Association has won so many of her battles. —Sacramento Bee, 02/06/12 More »
Nurses to Join Call for Healthcare for the 99% in Monday Rallies
A broad coalition of activists – including registered nurses, medical students, seniors, physicians, members of the Occupy movement, and the recently formed Campaign for a Health California (CHC) – will hold marches and rallies Monday, January 9 in Sacramento and Los Angeles to step up the campaign to extend guaranteed healthcare coverage to all Californians. —CNA Press Release, 01/06/12 More »
Nurses’ union wins bargaining agreement
A federal appeals court agreed that an agreement between union nurses and a hospital should have been honored by new owners. —McKnights.com, 01/04/12 More »
My Word: Nurses’ fight is to ensure quality health care
By Michele Ross, RN and Elsa Matos-Leal, RN - While most people are decorating trees and planning holiday parties, Sutter's registered nurses have been sitting at bargaining tables around the Bay Area. Despite the pull of the holiday season, we are fighting for health care -- both protecting the health of our patients by holding the line on patient-care protections Sutter wants to eradicate, and stopping unwarranted cuts to health care coverage for our families. —Oakland Tribune, 12/22/11 More »
Study: Unemployed, Underemployed U.S. Residents Delaying Care
About half of unemployed and underemployed U.S. residents do not have health insurance and 56% are delaying necessary care because of concerns about cost, according to according to a study released Monday by NPR and the Kaiser Family Foundation, National Journal reports. —California Healthline, 12/13/11 More »
CPMC spends far less on poor, S.F. report says
California Pacific Medical Center, including its St. Luke's campus, is San Francisco's most profitable hospital, yet it spends proportionately far less on care for poor residents than other private nonprofit hospitals in the city, according to a new report. —San Francisco Chronical, 12/09/11 More »
California’s wealth pyramid
Is there a widening gap between rich and poor? In the nation, and particularly in California, the answer is yes. The most durable message from the Occupy Wall Street encampments across the nation is also the simplest: "We are the 99%." But are the implications of that message fair? Is there a widening gap between rich and poor? Are those doing well just a fraction of the populace? —Los Angeles Times, 12/06/11 More »
Study: Family Health Insurance Premiums Up by 52% in California
Premium costs for family health insurance in California increased by 52% from 2003 to 2010 and consume a larger share of residents' income, according to a study by the Commonwealth Fund, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/17). —California Healthline, 11/17/11 More »
Family health care premiums exceed 20% of income
Family health insurance premiums in California went up 52 percent between 2003 and 2010 and now exceed 20 percent of income, according to a study released today. —San Francisco Chronicle, 11/17/11 More »
Public hospitals carry burden of charity care despite big tax breaks for nonprofits
The East Bay's nonprofit hospitals receive millions of dollars in tax breaks each year to care for the poor and uninsured, yet they provide only a fraction of local charity care, a Bay Area News Group analysis reveals. —Contra Costa Times, 10/23/11 More »
Patient died during Calif. nurse labor dispute
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities were investigating the death of a patient who was given a "non-prescribed dosage" of a medical drug by a replacement hired when thousands of nurses went on strike across California, an Oakland police spokeswoman said Sunday. —Associated Press, 09/25/11 More »
Death of patient blamed on strikebreaking nurse
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Police were investigating the death of an East Bay patient Saturday morning that hospital officials say was fatally dosed with an unknown medication by a replacement nurse brought in from out-of-state during a recent nurse strike. —KTVU, 09/25/11 More »
