By Phillip Reese, Kaiser Health News Homeless patients made about 100,000 visits to California hospitals in 2017, marking a 28% rise from two years earlier, according to the most recent state discharge data. More than a third of those visits involved a diagnosis of mental illness, according to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and […]
By Elisabeth Rosenthal, Kaiser Health News Last week, California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, promised to pursue a smörgåsbord of changes to his state’s healthcare system: state negotiation of drug prices, a requirement that every Californian have health insurance, more assistance to help middle-class Californians afford it and healthcare for undocumented immigrants up to age 26. […]
Multiple hospitals evacuated patients this week as the Camp Fire continued to spread across California, according to the state’s Department of Public Health. More than 300 patients across three general acute care hospitals, three skilled nursing facilities and six intermediate care facilities have evacuated since Nov. 10. Some facilities, like Los Robos Regional Medical Center in Thousand […]
One of the benefits of being a travel healthcare professional can be the opportunity to avoid hospital politics, but national politics are much harder to ignore. Many hot-button healthcare issues decided at the polls can have a direct impact on the travel healthcare job market, both positive and negative, and the 2018 midterm election on […]
Missouri travel nursing jobs are heating up in mid-July, but it’s not the only state where you can find great travel healthcare jobs this week. Continuing with our plan to refine our searches for the top StaffDNA job listings, this week we’ve featured our first physical therapist (PT) position. No surprise that it’s in Arizona, […]
Negotiations between healthcare company Kaiser Permanente and members of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions (CKPU) remain tense as nurses across the state continue the third and final week of planned protests at Kaiser-owned California facilities. Members of both parties met on May 7 to discuss details of the Coalition’s Labor Management Partnership, which was […]
Union workers plan to protest at various times between May 1-18 at 33 Kaiser Permanente-owned hospitals in California because of the “corporation’s plans that would undermine patients and the people who care for them.” Thousands of Kaiser employees who are part of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West are expected to protest over […]
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