Labor — a news feature about plans by SEIU’s United Healthcare Workers West unit and the California Nurses Association to increase their already substantial political and organizing clout and do battle with major hospitals in Northern California, especially San Francisco’s California Pacific Medical Center and other Sutter Health medical centers. It received a lot of attention, due in part to an inflammatory quote from labor leader Sal Rosselli regarding California Pacific’s efforts to expand its facilities in San Francisco.
Art of the rebuild-A news feature looking at how hard it is to attract funding
for a major hospital rebuild at Alameda County Medical Center/Highland
Hospital, the primary safety net hospital for Oakland, California, and efforts
by the administration to improve the public hospital’s fiscal health and
internal culture.
Doctors blister CEO-An expose of tensions at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San
Francisco between CEO Ken Steele and many of his doctors. After the story ran,
St. Mary’s internally announced a number of changes intended to mollify
medical-staff critics of Steele.
Where have doctors gone-a front-page news story that broke news about
aggressive physician-recruiting efforts by Kaiser Permanente and Sutter
Health, especially Sutter’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Between them, the
two huge systems are grabbing many of the new, young doctors in the region,
putting pressure on smaller medical groups and hospitals.
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