May 24th, 2022
Kaiser faces new behavioral health probe
Citing mounting concerns from mental health advocates including NUHW members and a surge in patient complaints, California’s Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) is launching a comprehensive investigation into whether Kaiser Permanente is providing adequate mental health coverage to the 9.4 million Californians enrolled in its health plan. The agency, which was already working on […]
May 24th, 2022
News of the Month — May 2022
Some of these stories may require a subscription. Scientific American quoted NUHW member Jessica Dominguez, founder and lead clinician of La Clínica, which offers culturally sensitive mental health therapy to Latinx patients at a Richmond Kaiser Permanente center, in a story about the need to make mental health services available to all, most importantly those […]
May 24th, 2022
Kaiser mental health workers strike in Hawaii
NUHW-represented Psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and chemical dependency counselors held a three-day strike May 18-20 at clinics and medical facilities across Hawaii to protest Kaiser Permanente’s severe understaffing of its behavioral health services that forces patients to wait months for therapy sessions. The workers held spirited strike lines on Oahu, Maui and the Big […]
May 18th, 2022
Kaiser Permanente to face state mental health probe
In a highly unusual move, California’s Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) is launching a comprehensive “non-routine survey” to examine whether Kaiser Permanente is providing adequate mental health coverage to the 9.4 million Californians enrolled in its health plan. In a statement issued Tuesday to policymakers and mental health advocates, DMHC Deputy Director Amanda Levy […]
May 13th, 2022
Kaiser Hawaii mental health therapists to strike starting May 18
Demand for mental health services in Hawaii is surging, but Kaiser Permanente fails to add adequate staff or improve access, placing patients at risk Clinicians schedule statewide strike starting May 18 to force changes at HMO that serves 260,000 Hawaii residents HONOLULU — Kaiser Permanente has a double-standard in Hawaii. The healthcare provider has recently […]