5/22/2023 0 Comments Alta bates berkeley“This study confirms what I think many of us sadly already knew, that the loss of Alta Bates would bring about unattainable costs to the East Bay community and disproportionately impact some of our most vulnerable communities: our homeless neighbors, our new mothers, our seniors, our communities of color, folks who desperately need care and they need it now,” East Bay Assemblywoman-elect Buffy Wicks said at a recent news conference. The report’s authors expect the closure of Alta Bates to prompt some people to temporarily forgo treatment because of the extra travel time to other hospitals, the report says. In 2016, some 63 percent of Alta Bates’ patients and 56 percent of its emergency patients were people of color and about 41 percent were uninsured, according to the report, conducted by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Urban and Regional Development. The Berkeley campuses are at 2450 Ashby Avenue and 2001 Dwight Way.BERKELEY - The planned closure of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in South Berkeley could hurt the poor, elderly and people of color and result in longer emergency room wait times at other hospitals in the region, according to a UC Berkeley report. The Oakland campus is at 350 Hawthorne Avenue. We are hopeful the union shares our desire to reach an agreement and enable our nurses to turn their focus back to the patients the union has asked them to walk away from.” Our attention remains on providing safe, high-quality care to the patients and communities we’re honored to serve, and we are confident in our ability to manage this disruption. Initiatives aimed at advancing equity and promoting diversity and inclusion in the ABSMC workforce.Comprehensive workplace violence prevention plans/measures that commits to protecting staff and patients.Continued employer-paid health coverage for nurses and their families. More than a 20% pay increase over 4 years in addition to any applicable step increases.We value our caregivers and their continued commitment to compassionate patient care, which is why our proposed contract guarantees great pay and benefits: “By moving forward with a costly and disruptive strike, local nurse union leadership has made it clear they are willing to put politics above patients and the nurses they represent – despite the intervention of federal mediators and our willingness to bargain in good faith while under threat of a strike. Sutter must create working conditions to enhance patient care while also providing a safe work environment that retains nurses.” We have nurses working overtime, and even double shifts day after day to keep the hospital running. I am seeing nurses leave the medical center for other nursing positions on a regular basis. “Sutter has a responsibility to ensure that nurses have what they need to provide the highest quality of care and have workplace violence prevention plans for each unit in place. “We are seeing a mass exodus of nurses from the medical center due to the poor working conditions,” Mike Hill, a registered nurse in the intensive care unit, stated in a press release. They claim that Alta Bates is not doing enough to address workplace violence, and are pointing to a high turnover rate as evidence the work environment needs improvement. or in many cases won’t show up to work at all. That’s because hundreds of nurses at both locations will walk off the job at 7 a.m. ( KRON) – If you have an appointment at Alta Bates in Berkeley or Oakland you should call ahead to see if you’re still good to go.
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