May 7th, 2018
Commentary: Attorney general helps patients by suing Sutter Health
This op-ed ran in the May 5, 2018, edition of the San Francisco Examiner: Want to know why San Francisco is the nation’s second-most expensive city to deliver a baby? The answer can be found in a lawsuit California Attorney General Xavier Becerra recently filed against The City’s largest private hospital operator: Sutter Health. The […]
May 3rd, 2018
NUHW report triggers scathing audit of California nursing homes
An audit report that stemmed from NUHW’s research into California’s largest nursing home operator blames lax state oversight for continued “substandard quality of care” in nursing homes across the state. California State Auditor Elaine Howle found that the California Department of Public Health has failed to perform necessary inspections or issue timely citations for substandard […]
May 3rd, 2018
News of the Week: NUHW praised for endorsement transparency
Each week we share articles on subjects that are important to NUHW and its members. Here are several must-read stories over the past seven days: A CalMatters story about interest groups refusing to publish the results to their candidate questionnaires used to make endorsements credited NUHW for making our questionnaires — and the candidates’ […]
April 24th, 2018
News of the Week: Bernie Sanders to propose job guarantee for all Americans
Each week we share articles on subjects that are important to NUHW and its members. Here are several must-read stories over the past seven days: Sen. Bernie Sanders will announce a plan for the federal government to guarantee a job paying $15 an hour and health-care benefits to every American worker “who wants or needs one,” embracing […]
April 23rd, 2018
Fountain Valley workers take fight to City Council
Fountain Valley Regional Hospital workers employed by the subcontractor Sodexo butted heads with the town’s mayor during a City Council meeting. After Mayor Michael Vo declined to meet with our Sodexo members, they attended the Tax Day council meeting to raise the issue of Sodexo keeping millions of dollars from the Trump corporate tax cut […]