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UAPD Updates

CDCR Needs More, Not Fewer, Dentists

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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