January 29th, 2024
Dominican Hospital workers unite to win strong contract
This page is also available in: Español NUHW members at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz ratified a four-year contract this month with 18 percent across-the-board wage increases and a reduction in health insurance premiums. The agreement covers 100 workers including physical therapists, occupational therapists, exercise physiologists and speech language pathologists as well as […]
January 23rd, 2024
Hospice and home health organizing: Nurses and patients deserve better!
Over the past two years, NUHW’s growing representation of nurses has been unfolding in an important but often overlooked setting: patients’ homes. We have welcomed RNs, LVNs, and NPs into our union from home health and hospices in Northern California operated by Sutter Health, Providence Health Systems, and Hospice East Bay. This new union organizing […]
January 23rd, 2024
Member spotlight: Elyssa Wheatley, Psychiatric RN
Elyssa Wheatley is a Psychiatric Registered Nurse and NUHW Steward at Kaiser Permanente Bostonia Psychiatry Offices in El Cajon, California. How long have you been a nurse? I have been a nurse for 16 years, spending the majority of my career in psychiatric nursing. Please briefly describe the type of nursing work you do. Since […]
January 23rd, 2024
The number of nurses in NUHW is growing
Did you know that NUHW now represents more than 1,600 nurses (RNs, LVNs, and NPs)? These NUHW nurses work across the state in a variety of settings from general acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and outpatient psychiatric clinics to correctional facilities and home health and hospice settings. Our nurses also have expertise in a […]
December 26th, 2023
Help us Eliminate Ghost Networks in 2024
One of the biggest challenges Californians face in accessing behavioral healthcare is trying to find anyone on their health plan’s list of in-network providers who’s actually reachable or available to schedule a therapy session. That’s why NUHW is teaming up with allies this year to pass a bill that will put an end to “Ghost […]