A group of 40 hospital-based clinicians who work at Skagit Valley Hospital and Cascade Valley Hospital in Washington state have filed to unionize. The doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, who work under a contract with Sound Physicians, are seeking...
Doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants working as hospitalists at Skagit Valley Hospital and Cascade Valley Hospital have filed for union representation with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). “Our community has been growing in...
Hospitalists who work in Bellingham and Sedro-Woolley, Wash., have voted to join the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, according to a June 13 statement from the union, which was shared with Becker's. The vote affects approximately 30 physicians, physician...
Photo Credit: Finn Wendt About 30 hospitalists in Bellingham and Sedro-Woolley won the right to unionize as both PeaceHealth and Sound Physicians employees, after votes cast by the clinicians were counted on Tuesday, June 11. These clinicians specialize in...
A group of hospitalists in Washington state is poised to become the first physician union to earn joint-employer status, sources told MedPage Today. Some 30 clinicians -- including 25 physicians and five nurse practitioners -- working at two PeaceHealth facilities...
Photo credit: Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News An increasing number of clinicians across the nation are looking to unionize as they lose their autonomy to advocate for patients or themselves as for-profit groups, such as Sound Physicians, are “trying to squeeze money...