April 23rd, 2019
Video: San Francisco supervisors tell Kaiser to fix its mental health care services
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution on April 23, 2019, calling on Kaiser Permanente to achieve “full parity for mental health patients.” The resolution, introduced by Supervisor Hillary Ronen, also calls on Kaiser to sufficiently staff mental health clinics to reduce lengthy appointment wait times; limit wait times to no more […]
April 20th, 2019
Video: Patients demand meeting with Kaiser CEO over deficient mental health services
On April 17, Kaiser patients, clinicians and community leaders came together with the goal of helping the HMO truly become a national model for mental health care, This gathering came just four months after Kaiser’s nearly 4,000 mental health clinicians, represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, held a five-day strike to demand that […]
April 16th, 2019
Queen Workers Showing Pride – “Yas, Queen!”
More than 2,500 NUHW members at six Providence St. Joseph Health hospitals across California sent a clear message to their employer that they are committed to fighting for their patients and each other. Wearing buttons that read, “We beat as one! We care for all!” the caregivers stood united recently in support of compatriots at […]
April 15th, 2019
Press Release: Kaiser mental health patients to rally in Oakland demanding better care
Is Kaiser Permanente in denial over its mental health crisis? Mental health patients to gather outside Oakland headquarters after CEO Bernard Tyson ignored their meeting request WHAT: Gathering of patients who were unable to get timely mental health care from Kaiser, including one couple whose teenage daughter died by suicide. WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m. […]
April 12th, 2019
Press release: Kaiser Sacramento refuses to provide mental health appointments
Patients in Sacramento area made to wait hours at understaffed walk-in clinics Emeryville – Kaiser Permanente is failing to provide adequate access to mental health care for Sacramento area patients, according to a complaint submitted to California’s Department of Managed Health Care. In the complaint, Kaiser’s mental health clinicians assert that patients seeking diagnostic assessments are […]