NUHW Behavioral Health Associate Membership
Join our fight for mental health parity
Media
We’ve made national news over the past decade, passing laws, advocating for parity, blowing the whistle on insurers and HMOs and waging the longest strikes by behavioral healthcare workers in U.S. history.
2023
- Modern Healthcare
Burden of enforcing contracts falling on healthcare union members to ‘speak up’ - Honolulu Civil Beat
Beth Fukumoto: We Passed Crisis Level With Mental Health Services A Long Time Ago - ABC 17 KMIZ
Kaiser mental health therapists head back to work Tuesday after a six-month strike - ABC 4 KITV
172-day Kaiser mental health care strike ends, after deal reached
2022
- Capital & Main
California’s Fight to Make Mental Health Care Providers Comply With the Law - Testimony
California State Senate Health Committee on mental health parity law SB 221 - Sacramento Bee
Kaiser behavioral health care on the hot seat after California complaints - Sacramento Bee
Kaiser mental health patients waiting months for appointments in Sacramento-area employees say - Honolulu Star Advertiser
Kaiser’s mental health shortage puts patient safety at risk, national agency finds - Politico Pro
California regulators investigate wait time for mental health care at Kaiser Permanente amid strike - Cal Matters
State launches another investigation into Kaiser - Becker’s
Kaiser faces state probe over mental health access amid strike - Rally
State Senator Scott Wiener supports NUHW members - Press Conference
Is Kaiser ready to comply with California’s new mental health parity law - Testimony
Kaiser Therapists speak to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors - Testimony
Jasmine Hicks, mother of Kaiser Patient, testifies at Senate Health Committee - Testimony
California State Assembly Discusses Kaiser mental health failings
2021
- LA Daily News
New California law makes it easier to get care for mental health, substance abuse - California Healthline
California law aims to strengthen access to mental health services - Becker’s
Members, therapists criticize Kaiser Permanente’s mental health coverage: 6 things to know
2020
- San Francisco Examiner
Legislation to expand access to mental health services makes its way through state legislature - Cal Matters
New law in 1 minute: California widens mental health conditions insurers must cover
2019
- Cal Matters
For families across California, a desperate struggle to get mental health care - Cal Matters
Mental health care outcry targets Kaiser — and state regulators - California Healthline/LA Times
Despite quick fixes, Kaiser Permanente mental health care still lags. - KALW Public Radio
Patients rally outside Kaiser HQ to demand better mental health care - San Francisco Chronicle
With union support, Kaiser patients demand CEO meeting over mental health
2018
- Therapy Reimagined
Modern Therapists Strike Back - Mother Jones
Clinicians say Kaiser mental health care is awful. - USA Today
Will your therapist go on strike?
2017
- California Healthline
Kaiser agrees to outside monitoring to resolve mental health parity violations. - California Healthline
Kaiser Permanente cited — again — for mental health access problems
2016
- KQED Public Radio (San Francisco)
How therapy became a hobby of the wealthy – rather than a necessity for the mentally ill - KQED Public Radio (San Francisco)
Frustrated you can’t find a therapist? They’re frustrated, too - KQED Public Radio (San Francisco)
Mental health study: sorry, I’m not accepting new (black or poor) patients - KQED Public Radio: Forum (San Francisco)
Despite laws to increase access, many Californians struggle to find mental health services - KQED Public Radio (San Francisco)
Single mom’s search for therapist foiled by insurance companies
2015
- KPBS (San Diego)
California regulators say Kaiser still hasn’t fixed access to care problems - Los Angeles Times
State again slams Kaiser Permanente for delays in mental health treatment - California Health Access
Kaiser Permanente whacked again on lack of timely access - KQED Public Radio: The California Report
Sorry, the therapist can’t see you — not now, not anytime soon
2014
- KQED
Kaiser agrees to pay $4 million for mental health parity violations following NUHW complaint. - Los Angeles Times
Kaiser criticized over mental health care staffing