On August 4th, the DPA gave UAPD notice of CDCR''s intention to lay off thirty-one dentists working in state prisons effective January 14, 2011, as part of a larger plan to reduce the dentist-to-patient ratio and shift work to newly hired dental hygienists. UAPD...
UAPD Updates
Doctors Fight to Save Medical Care for Veterans
Late on Thursday, July 30th, UAPD was notified of the cancellation of the planned Senate Hearing in Yountville. It appears progress is being made on talks between the Committee and the Governor's office--UAPD will release details as they become available. Staff and...
UAPD Doctors Will Not Be Furloughed
All doctors in UAPD''s Bargaining Unit 16 have been excluded from the new round of furloughs announced by Governor Schwarzenegger on July 28th. The new plan does not impose furloughs on members of the six bargaining units that have ratified tentative agreements with...
Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) Contract
ACMC MOU 2007-2010 The ACMC contract was extended until June 2011.
UAPD Independent Physicians Association (IPA)
The UAPD IPA is a statewide, non-profit Independent Physicians Association formed in 1993. It gives its members, who are also members of UAPD, access to eleven PPO contracts with more than 3,500,000 non-exclusive patient lives, plus seven industrial medicine contracts...
UAPD Continues to Fight UC Takeover of Corrections Healthcare
UC Davis Doctor Speaks Out Against NuPhysicia Plan In an op-ed in the California Progress Report, Dr. Richard Pan, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California, Davis, explains why the proposed deal is bad for UC, prison inmates, and...