by Suzanne Wilson | Oct 1, 2012 | Featured, Los Angeles County Physicians
Dear Los Angles Physicians, Members of BU 324 overwhelming ratified the tentative agreement reached between the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) and Los Angeles County in August. The new contract for LA County physicians will go into effect...
by Suzanne Wilson | Sep 15, 2012 | California Counties, Santa Barbara County
In order to minimize the impact of the elimination of hospital call at the Santa Maria Women’s Health Care Center, the County of Santa Barbara and UAPD reached a side-letter agreement in late August. As a result of the agreement, …
by Suzanne Wilson | Aug 17, 2012 | California State of California Doctors, Department of State Hospitals (DSH), Featured, News
After a patient tried to choke a worker Wednesday with the lanyard holding a new alarm, the facility will now allow employees to wear them on a belt-loop clip. The attack on a psychiatric technician demonstrated with eerie precision the...
by Suzanne Wilson | Aug 13, 2012 | California State of California Doctors, Department of State Hospitals (DSH), Featured
“You don’t wear a tie if you’re working with patients on a psychiatric unit. Now everyone is going to have the equivalent of a tie,” said Dr. Richard Frishman, a psychiatrist and member of the union-based Safety Now Coalition who,...
by Suzanne Wilson | Aug 1, 2012 | Private Practice Doctors
By Stuart A. Bussey, M.D., J.D., UAPD President With the majority of the Affordable Care Act blessed by the US Supreme Court, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are now rolling down the runway. Some have already launched. Thus far 150 ACO...