Thousands Of Workers To Protest Outside Sacramento’s UC Davis Medical Center This Week
Both UC Davis management and AFSCME Local 3299 officials said patients can be assured that they will receive the same quality of care that they have come to expect at UC hospitals.
Sacramento Bee:
What This Week’s Strike At UCD Hospital Means For Patients, Traffic In Sacramento
Deadlocked in labor contract negotiations with the University of California, thousands of low-wage workers represented by AFSCME Local 3299 will be setting up picket lines Tuesday through Thursday outside Sacramento’s UC Davis Medical Center and at four other academic hospitals around the state. Here’s what UC Davis patients and motorists around its facilities should know. (Anderson, 10/22)
In other news from across the state —
Santa Rosa Press Democrat:
Aging Residents And Health Care Job Growth Drive Medical Construction Boom
The medical office building slated to open in early 2020 represents Sonoma County’s latest example of new construction so more health care workers can serve additional patients. Those developments include the spring opening of a $50 million Kaiser Permanente medical office building in southwest Santa Rosa and the 2014 opening of a $292 million Sutter Health hospital and medical office complex in north Santa Rosa. The medical building spurt comes as health care enterprises have become the county’s largest employer, with nearly 35,000 workers, or about 15 percent of the local workforce. Health care employment has outpaced the rest of the county economy in recent years, and the sector is expected to remain the fastest- growing here over the next four years, according to recent studies by the Sonoma County Economic Development Board. (Digitale, 10/21)
Sacramento Bee:
A Doctor Warned California About Prisoner Care. After An Inmate Suicide, He Got $822,000
Christopher Wadsworth, the prison’s former chief psychiatrist, got an $822,000 settlement last year after alleging that a change in mental health protocol contributed to an inmate’s suicide in 2014. He claimed he experienced years of professional retaliation after warning his supervisors that a plan to temporarily restrict the number of San Quentin’s acute crisis beds would endanger inmates and contradict provisions of a court agreement that governs mental health services. (Ashton, 10/19)