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Kaiser Mental Health

Recalling NUHW’s strike to make Kaiser honor MLK Day January 13, 2023 For the first time since Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a federal holiday in 1986, Kaiser Permanente will honor...
Therapist: Kaiser should be “ashamed” for long wait times, lack of equity in mental health care November 1, 2021 The founder and lead clinician at Kaiser Permanente’s La Clínica, a program that serves Latinx residents in Richmond, California, criticized...
Therapists blow the whistle on Kaiser Permanente October 29, 2021 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...
NUHW’s mental health bill signed into law October 28, 2021 California took a giant step toward mental health parity in October when Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 221, NUHW’s legislation...
Mental health reform legislation advances in the State Senate March 26, 2021 A bill sponsored by NUHW to require Kaiser Permanente and all health plans in California to provide timely follow-up mental...
Kaiser workers continue advocacy for SB 855 July 28, 2020 NUHW-represented Kaiser clinicians are continuing to advocate for one of the most comprehensive mental health reform bills in recent years....
“Elizabeth’s Story” video wins 3 awards for online advocacy June 26, 2020 When 4,000 Kaiser mental health clinicians and healthcare professionals went on strike throughout California in December of 2018, David and...
Kaiser members hold firm in rejecting illegal gag order June 24, 2020 NUHW members have beaten back an attempt by Kaiser Permanente to make them surrender their rights to organize patients and...
Remembering Clem Papazian, a leader in Mental Health Awareness May 6, 2020 Earlier this year, we lost an indispensable leader in our fight to achieve parity for mental health care. Clem Papazian,...
After NUHW protest, Newsom pledges to make enforcement agency “do its damn job” January 30, 2020 Our fight for mental health parity is resonating in the state capital.  Following a statewide strike by Kaiser mental health...
Kaiser mental health workers hold 5-day statewide strike December 30, 2019 Four thousand Kaiser mental health clinicians and other healthcare professionals demonstrated their resolve last week with a powerful five-day strike...
Press release: Day 4 of Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike December 19, 2019 Kaiser therapists take fight to State Capitol and demand oversight agency hold Kaiser — and all insurers — accountable for...