Through its employment of Bhattacharya within its medical school, Stanford played a key role in legitimizing an anti-science public health policy, which has claimed countless lives.
The Ascension Genesys nurses' tentative agreement does not improve staffing ratios, eliminate mandatory overtime or make up for wages lost since the last contract.
The strike will take place at Genesys Hospital’s main campus in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan as well as the nearby Genesys Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation department and the Genesys-Hurley Cancer Institute in Flint.
Clinicians say TeamHealth, the private equity owned firm subordinates health care to the company’s financial bottom line.
The 43 members of the newly formed Greater Detroit Association of Emergency Physicians union are contracted by Ascension St. John Hospital but employed by a private equity-funded staffing company called TeamHealth.
One year since the start of Medicaid disenrollment, the broader, devastating effects of the policy are becoming more clear as community health centers and health facilities in rural areas are experiencing sharp revenue losses that threaten closures and layoffs.
Healthcare workers at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor describe their fight to manage overcrowded Emergency Departments and over-capacity ICU’s amid a lack of precautions and systems in place to contain the virus.
The state was called in to rapidly relocate residents to at least 15 different facilities across the area. Receiving nursing homes reported that residents arrived with no medical paperwork or medication.
The MNA’s termination of Singh expresses the broader political role of the trade unions to prop up the pro-war Democratic Party and suppress the growing opposition of workers to the economic and political situation.
As the US medical establishment largely justifies the genocide in Gaza, healthcare workers voice their opposition and join the mass movement of workers against the war on Palestine.
If the CKPU is unwilling to provide such information, which all members are entitled to know, then there is no reason to accept the claim that the contract was passed at all.
Healthcare workers across the globe are joining the mass movement against the continued genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
The vote expresses a widespread desire to fight, after facing years of short staffing and COVID-19, while a new influx of patients is crushing healthcare systems.
In order to prevent another sellout, the experiences of 2019, as well as other betrayals by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions and Alliance of Health Care Unions, must be studied.
The guideline revision is not an arbitrary decision or a misguided mistake, but a conscious and criminal maneuver designed to ensure that another surge or another pandemic will not cause any slowdowns in the economy.
Nearly 300 nurses will strike this week after being kept on the job without a contract by the California Nurses Association bureaucracy for nearly two years.
Twenty-five defendants are awaiting a trial and face up to 20 years in prison. The allegations reflect a deepening crisis in the health care and education systems, which the defendants sought to exploit.
“People are dying from lack of access to care, health care workers are being pushed to suicide/PTSD/mental breakdown/burnout, and those with the power to do anything are doing...nothing.”
An ER physician said, “The staffing was gutted during COVID, now volumes are back up but they left the skeleton crew to manage this.”
The real nightmare this Halloween is being experienced by thousands of parents and children in hospital waiting rooms and by the millions of health care providers witnessing patients suffer and health systems collapse long before the expected peak of respiratory viruses.
