The Los Angeles Times (6/6, Peltz) reports that some “4,000 mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente will go on strike next week at facilities throughout California if they and the healthcare giant fail to reach a new contract before then.” The main issue, the National Union of Healthcare Workers “says, is that Kaiser is being too slow to enable its patients to access mental health care.” The union “is seeking increased staffing, smaller patient-to-therapist ratios and fewer patient referrals to therapists outside the Kaiser network, among other changes.”
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— “Kaiser Permanente mental health workers threaten to strike, “James F. Peltz, Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2019