After months of pressure from UAPD, in January 2021 the LA County Chief Executive Officer (CEO) issued a memo authorizing a “Critical Shortage Recruitment Rate” for obstetric, pediatric and cardiothoracic anesthesiologists which moved them to the top step of the pay...
Stuart A. Bussey, MD, JD | 2020 was supposed to be a year of clear vision. But for most of us, it was a year of fear and anxiety. Our overheated environment produced record fires, hurricanes, and a once in a century pandemic. Society devolved into racial unrest,...
By Adam Ferguson, New York Times During Thanksgiving week, the Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services, the main hospital serving Gallup, was inundated by virus cases. Inside the hospital, Zola Sandoval, a 63-year-old Navajo woman who was being treated for...
In September 2019, a committee of UAPD physicians and staff forced LA County Mid-Valley Comprehensive Health Center (MVCHC) management to agree to pay physicians for overtime hours worked and to refrain from imposing increased workload. It was in August of 2019 that...
It’s harder in this Covid year 2020 for us to give thanks, but here goes...Thanks for having food on the table, when many in the world go hungryThanks for having an interesting job, serving society, and making a good livingThanks to our colleagues and those who make...
TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, in the face of a pandemic that continues to devastate our health and economy, America's largest union of licensed physicians and healthcare providers announced that physicians, nurse practitioners and physician...