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Mental health clinicians prepare to strike at Kaiser Permanente in California
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32125
Subject(s) - mental health , faith , health professionals , family medicine , medicine , nursing , mental healthcare , health maintenance , health care , psychiatry , psychology , gerontology , political science , law , philosophy , theology
Four thousand psychologists, therapists and other medical professionals are striking at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California Nov. 11–15 to demand that the health maintenance organization demonstrate good faith and fix its broken mental health system that leaves patients waiting up to three months for therapy appointments and therapists overwhelmed with crushing caseloads, according to a news release from the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).