Healthcare workers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland have initiated a strike against the university's integration plan with the hospital, claiming it threatens their income and benefits. Employees represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers fear that this shift will lead to layoffs and a decline in patient care, particularly affecting vulnerable families reliant on Medicaid. The hospital, historically significant as a safety-net institution for the region, has been under scrutiny since its affiliation with UCSF in 2014, and staff express concerns that the current changes are politically motivated and detrimental to healthcare quality.
This is such a massive overreach by UCSF," said Carly Sanders, a pediatric occupational specialist at the hospital, formally called UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. "It has nothing to do with making patient care better...
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