July 6th, 2022
Getting the word out about our new mental health access law
After fighting hard to pass a landmark law that requires health insurers to end dangerously long waits for mental health therapy appointments, NUHW-represented clinicians and their allies have launched a campaign to inform Californians of their new rights to access timely care. With SB 221 slated to go into effect on July 1, clinicians Sarah […]
January 17th, 2022
Kaiser mental health therapists strike for racial justice on MLK Day
Refusing to let Kaiser pay lip service to racial justice while failing to provide culturally-responsive health care for communities of color, mental health clinicians at Kaiser Permanente’s Richmond and Oakland offices held a one-day strike on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Nearly 100 psychologists, social workers, addiction counselors and marriage and family therapists picketed outside […]
October 29th, 2021
Therapists blow the whistle on Kaiser Permanente
NUHW-represented mental health clinicians revealed the truth about Kaiser’s broken mental health system during a first-of-its-kind hearing before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Mission Local reported that Supervisors Dean Preston “seemed in disbelief” during the nearly-three hour hearing that Kaiser had no internal data showing how long patients were waiting for mental health therapy […]
July 16th, 2021
Kaiser Permanente criticized for denying patients with postpartum depression the only FDA-authorized drug
Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 855, a landmark mental health parity law written to prevent health plans from denying people mental health care on the grounds that the treatment was not “medically necessary.” Now it appears that Kaiser Permanente might already be violating the law. In a story aired by KQED, the Bay […]
July 14th, 2021
Family can’t get timely care from Kaiser for autistic son
More than 1400 Kaiser mental health patients have shared stories at kaiserdontdeny.org of care delayed or denied, and the stories keep coming in. Here’s a recent story from a family in Sacramento struggling to get care for their autistic son. We have belonged to Kaiser for well over 25 years. Their services for physical healthcare […]