CA Nurses Healthcare Tour in Santa Cruz Thursday With Screenings and Town Hall
Local stats show dire need for healthcare overhaul—21.3% of adults uninsured, 13% of adults unable to see a doctor due to cost
Jul 5, 2012
What You Did for the Least of These, California, You Do for Us All
Notes from the road in California: I’ve been on the National Nurses United Medicare for All for life bus tour since mid-June, with one break to travel to Philadelphia for the SiCKO 5th reunion. So first let me admit I have a bit of “bus brain†going on. It’s a condition that goes along with being on an advocacy tour, without the restorative comforts of home. Today we head for Santa Cruz. Join us!
Donna Smith
CA Nurses Healthcare Tour in San Francisco Wednesday, in the Post Court Era
Local stats show dire need for healthcare overhaul—16.4% of adults uninsured, 11% of adults unable to see a doctor due to cost
Jul 3, 2012
Hospital deal in danger as papers suggest breaches
Mayor Ed Lee's deal with California Pacific Medical Center on a $2.5 billion overhaul of its San Francisco medical facilities is in jeopardy after internal financial documents were leaked showing hospital officials considered cutting hundreds of jobs, paying substantially less in charity care than envisioned in the deal, and could close a hospital despite pledging to keep it open.
San Francisco Chronicle
3,500 Bay Area Sutter Nurses to Strike Tuesday
Registered nurses at seven Alameda and San Mateo county hospitals operated by the Sutter corporation will begin a one-day strike Tuesday morning, once again protesting a long list of concession demands that they say would undermine patient care protections as well as health and living standards for the RNs. The strike will affect 3,500 RNs and also several hundred respiratory, X-ray, and other technicians.
Jul 2, 2012
CA Nurses Healthcare Tour in Oakland Tuesday with Screenings and Town Hall, in the Post Court Era
Local stats show dire need for healthcare overhaul—17.6% of adults uninsured, 17% of adults unable to see a doctor due to cost
Jun 29, 2012
State Fines Sutter/Alta Bates Over $84,000 for Willful Failure to Protect Staff, Police Officer
California’s Department of Occupational Health and Safety has fined Sutter corporation’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center for willful misconduct in dangerously exposing staff and police officers to a serious illness that resulted in permanent disabilities for a respiratory tech and an Oakland police officer.
CA Nurses Healthcare Tour in San Jose Monday with Screenings and Town Hall, in the Post Court Era
Local stats show dire need for healthcare overhaul—17% of adults uninsured, 10% of adults unable to see a doctor due to cost
Jun 28, 2012
Pallor or Power, Patients or Consumers: Which Model Do We Want?
It’s a big day. And the corporate model for healthcare in America just triumphed over our humanity. The corporate Supreme Court honored all of its masters mightily in upholding the position that patients are consumers, taxes are bad, and full steam ahead on a healthcare system that includes a bailed-out private health insurance market. Ouch.
Donna Smith