Hospital Workers To Air Wage, Benefits Demands At Public Forum in Santa Rosa
Labor negotiations are ongoing for personnel of Santa Rosa Memorial and Petaluma Valley hospitals with hospital operator St. Joseph Health. In other regional hospital news, Tehachapi voters will get a say on hospital management and a Newport Beach hospital uses virtual reality in surgery.
The Press Democrat:
Santa Rosa Memorial, Petaluma Valley Hospital Workers Will Meet St. Joseph Health In Public Forum
Amid ongoing labor talks, workers at Santa Rosa Memorial and Petaluma Valley hospitals are set to air their differences with hospital operator St. Joseph Health at a public forum in Santa Rosa this weekend. Hosted by the fair wage advocates North Bay Jobs with Justice, hospital employees represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, or NUHW, are expected to discuss what they claim is problematic understaffing at the two hospitals, noncompetitive wages and threats to their health care and retirement benefits. (Espinoza, 2/18)
Tehachapi News:
Tehachapi's Health Care District Approves Resolution For Adventist Health Affiliation
It's taken years to accomplish, but the people of greater Tehachapi may finally have the hospital they've always wanted. The Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District approved a resolution that puts to a public vote the possible affiliation with Adventist Health to basically run the district. (Barnes, 2/19)
The Orange County Register:
Hoag Uses Virtual Reality To Take Surgery Into A New Dimension
Marcus Barnes couldn’t have envisioned what he was about to see. One month after successful brain surgery, the Irvine resident sat in an operating room at Hoag Hospital Newport Beach and was handed a pair of virtual reality goggles. (Nicolai, 2/19)