Supporters Fight Deportation Of Undocumented Oncology Nurse
Bay Area registered nurse Maria Sanchez and her husband have been given 90 days to leave the country. Some of her Highland Hospital colleagues are calling on immigration officials to halt the order. “It’s shameful that ICE is ripping her away from her family, her home, and the patients who need her,” he said in a statement.
Bay Area News Group:
Healthcare Workers Rally To Halt Oakland Nurse's Deportation
Health care workers and other community members are rallying at noon Monday in front of Highland Hospital to demand that U.S. immigration officials halt the imminent deportation of registered nurse Maria Sanchez and her husband on Tuesday. The couple, who moved to the Bay Area in the early 1990s from a small town in Mexico, are undocumented immigrants. (Seipel, 8/14)
In other health care personnel news —
KPBS:
Study Of California’s Medical Interpretation Services Still Mired In Process
Nearly a year after the governor approved studying California’s medical interpretation services, state health workers are still hiring staff to carry out the task. Gov. Jerry Brown in September signed AB 635, which directed the Department of Health Care Services to examine California’s requirements for providing interpretation to patients who speak a foreign language. (Mento, 8/14)
Mercury News:
Santa Clara County Hiring Transgender Services Manager
Santa Clara County is bolstering its services aimed at the South Bay’s diverse and often marginalized transgender community through a new program manager dedicated to that population — the second such post in the nation. The program manager will serve as a “trainer, mediator and facilitator” for the transgender community, who face unique challenges at school, the workplace, in hospitals, correctional facilities and elsewhere. (Kurhi, 8/14)
Modern Healthcare:
C-Suite Pay Raises Target Transformational Healthcare Leaders
Hospital and health system executives' compensation continues to soar and will likely maintain that pace as organizations search for a narrowing set of qualified executives to lead more complex operations across a consolidating healthcare landscape. The most significant annual pay hikes are being doled out to executives who are believed to be best qualified to navigate the path to a system that increasingly favors value over volume. Incentive packages tend to focus on systemwide metrics, including reducing variation in care and unnecessary procedures, patient satisfaction and other measures that follow new reimbursement models. (Kacik, 8/14)