Unions Reach Deals With Dignity Health, Kaiser Permanente
SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West has ratified a contract with Dignity Health that includes 13 percent pay increases, while the California Nurses Association reached a tentative five-year deal with Kaiser Permanente.
Sacramento Bee:
2 Sacramento Hospital Groups Reach Settlements With Labor Unions
Both Dignity Health and Kaiser Permanente announced Monday that they had reached major contract agreements with labor unions representing thousands of employees at the two companies. The roughly 15,000 members of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West concluded voting Friday, ratifying a five-year contract with Dignity that will increase pay by 13 percent over the term of the deal. (Anderson, 3/20)
Santa Rosa Press Democrat:
Kaiser And Northern California Nurses Agree On 5-Year Labor Contract
The California Nurses Association and Kaiser Permanente have reached a tentative agreement on a five-year labor contract affecting more than 700 union nurses and nurse practitioners in Sonoma County. The nurses union said the agreement calls for wage increases, additional help for nurses and the elimination of a proposed wage scale that would have paid some nurses less than others depending on geographic region. ...CNA said Kaiser agreed to withdraw a four-tier proposal for wage reductions for newly hired registered nurses and nurse practitioners in some Northern California regions. The agreement affects 19,000 union nurses and nurse practitioners at 21 medical centers, clinics and medical offices in Northern and Central California. (Espinoza, 3/20)
In other hospital news —
Modern Healthcare:
St. Joseph Health Creating Regional Board For Northern California Hospitals
St. Joseph Health will soon institute a regional board to oversee key moves like capital planning, joint ventures and hiring and firing of chief executives for four Northern California hospitals that currently make such decisions in-house.
The four hospitals—Santa Rosa (Calif.) Memorial Hospital, Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka and Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna—each will continue to operate community boards, but they will not have fiduciary oversight. St. Joseph Health teamed up with Providence Health & Services to form the 50-hospital Providence St. Joseph Health in 2016. (Bannow, 3/20)