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Kaiser Mental Health

California Kaiser mental health clinicians vote to go on strike until HMO adequately staffs its psychiatric units, ends retaliation against whistleblowers October 22, 2015 In move to protect patients, 1,500 California Kaiser mental health clinicians vote to go on strike until HMO adequately staffs...
No More Suicides! Neoliberalism on the Kaiser Couch October 16, 2015 By Cal Winslow (Click here to see the story on CounterPunch) It was unnerving, last winter, marching in downtown Oakland,...
Los Angeles Times story: “His 83-year-old wife jumped to her death from a Kaiser clinic — why?” October 7, 2015 The Los Angeles Times published a story in September about the tragic suicide of Barbara Ragan, the Santa Rosa woman...
Kaiser Permanente misleads press, public in attempt to blunt negative publicity stemming from class-action lawsuit September 18, 2015 HMO’s press release makes misleading claims about staffing, new hiring in Kaiser’s mental health departments Damage-control effort is response to...
No More Kaiser Suicides: Coalition of advocacy groups launches social media campaign August 31, 2015 No More Kaiser Suicides is a social media campaign created in partnership with Courage Campaign and the East Bay chapter...
Kaiser mental health under scrutiny again following suicide August 27, 2015 Kaiser Permanente’s failures to provide timely mental health care have made the news several times in recent weeks. First, there...
Strict limits on mental health care still common for California patients August 13, 2015 National Public Radio’s Here and Now aired this story by reporter Jenny Gold about the failure of Kaiser Permanente and...
Therapists demand action in response to tragic Santa Rosa suicide that highlights the failures of Kaiser Permanente’s mental health care services August 3, 2015 Therapists demand action in response to tragic Santa Rosa suicide that highlights the failures of Kaiser Permanente’s mental health care...
Healthcare workers call on Attorney General, state regulators to issue injunction to block California Hospital Association’s whistleblower gag clause June 18, 2015 Healthcare workers call on Attorney General, state regulators to issue injunction to block California Hospital Association’s whistleblower gag clause Secret...
Kaiser rewards complicit unions with “hush money,” retaliates against workers and advocates who expose violations of state law and poor patient care June 8, 2015 Press release, June 8, 2015 Kaiser rewards complicit unions with “hush money,” retaliates against workers and their advocates who expose...
LaborNotes: Will Kaiser’s Labor Partnership Crack? June 4, 2015 Earlier this04 week, LaborNotes posed the question: “Will Kaiser’s Labor Partnership Crack?” The Labor–Management Partnership has been co-opted by Kaiser and...
Kaiser mental health clinicians protest retaliation against whistleblowers May 18, 2015 Kaiser mental health clinicians picketed and leafleted at Kaiser facilities throughout California May 11–15 to protest the HMO’s retaliation against...