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SEIU United Healthcare Workers West Company Profile

03:41 EDT 22nd May 2013 | BioPortfolio

Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), headquartered in San Francisco, CA, is a system of 40 hospitals and medical centers in California, Arizona, and Nevada. Founded in 1986, it is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest private hospital system in California. CHW is committed to delivering compassionate, high-quality, affordable health care services with special attention to the poor and underserved. The CHW network of nearly 10,000 physicians and approximately 55,000 employees provides health care services to more than five million people annually. In 2011, CHW provided more than $1.4 billion in charity care, community benefit, and unreimbursed patient care. For more information, please visit our website at www.chwHEALTH.org.


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California Hospital Association and State’s Largest Healthcare Union to Hold 9:30 a.m. Telephone-News Conference Following Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Care Act

California Hospital Association/SEIU-UHW: WHEN:   9:30 a.m., Thursday, June...

Date Set in Kaiser Permanente Union Election for More than 45,000 Workers

An election among more than 45,000 members of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) work for Kaiser Permanente to choose which union they want to represent them will be h...

State’s Largest Healthcare Union Says: With Supreme Court Decision, We Need to ‘Punch the Accelerator Even Harder’ on Health Reform in California

Dave Regan, president of the 150,000-member SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, issued the following statement after today’s U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Ac...

Governor’s Appointment Today of His ‘Let’s Get Healthy California’ Task Force Will Directly Confront Tsunami Of Chronic Disease in California

Dave Regan, an appointee to Gov. Jerry Brown’s “Let’s Get Healthy California” task force and president of SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, issued the following stateme...

Registered Nurses, LVNs, technologists and Other Healthcare Workers at College Hospital Cerritos Vote to Join SEIU to Improve Safety, Care and Healthcare Jobs

Close to 300 healthcare workers seeking to improve staffing and patient care at College Hospital in Cerritos have overwhelmingly voted to form a union with Service Employees Inter...

State Labor Board Cites SEIU for "Abusive Behavior" and "Physical Threats" in 2009 Fresno Homecare Election

FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) released an official complaint yesterday against the Service Employees Internation...

Judge Orders Prime Healthcare to Reimburse Centinela Hospital Employees’ Healthcare Costs

Company Owes Employees Millions of Dollars Calling Prime Healthcare “disingenuous,” “evasive” and “less than serious,” a National Labor Relations Board judge has f...

El Camino Hospital and SEIU-UHW Announce Tentative Contract Agreement

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- El Camino Hospital and the Service Employees International Union-United Health Workers, West (SEIU-UHW) today announced that a tentative agreement...

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Legal considerations surrounding mandatory influenza vaccination for healthcare workers in the United States.

Recent years have brought increased focus on the desirability of vaccinating more healthcare workers against influenza. The concern that novel 2009 H1N1 influenza A would spark a particularly severe i...

Workplace violence prevention for healthcare workers-an online course.

Workplace assaults against healthcare workers originate from many sources, but are predominantly committed by patients. Therefore, training in strategies for preventing patient-on-nurse violence is ve...

The effectiveness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonisation screening in asymptomatic healthcare workers in an Irish orthopaedic unit.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are associated with increased mortality, costs and length of stay compared to non-MRSA infections. This observational 4-year study analyse...

Motivating factors for high rates of influenza vaccination among healthcare workers.

Recent guidance from related regulatory agencies and medical societies supports mandatory vaccination of healthcare workers (HCW) against influenza. At St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a pediatr...

Contact lens use and its compliance for care among healthcare workers in Pakistan.

Background: Poor care and hygiene of contact lens (CL) results in eye problems and infections. Healthcare workers have an important role in advocating correct lens care. Objectives: To determine the p...

Clinical Trials [ 954 Associated Clinical Trials listed on BioPortfolio]

Quantiferon for Detection of Latent Tuberculosis in Healthcare Workers

The accuracy of tuberculin skin test (TST) for detecting latent tuberculosis is limited in countries with a high proportion of population having received vaccination with the BCG. We aim t...

Clearance of Nasal Staphylococcus Aureus With Triple Antibiotic Ointment

Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that lives commonly in the anterior nostrils, is seen in about 30% of healthcare workers. Applying mupirocin ointment, a prescription, to the nostrils twi...

Screening for Latent Tuberculosis in Healthcare Workers With Quantiferon-Gold Assay: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

The ministry of health in Israel requires all health-care workers to undergo screening for latent Tuberculosis infection (LTBI) prior to starting work. This is based on the Mantoux skin te...

Study of Genes and Environment in Patients With Cancer in East Anglia, Trent, or West Midlands Regions of the United Kingdom

RATIONALE: Studying samples of blood from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer....

Mastering Hospital Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Spread Into the Community-Healthcare Workers

Medical staff will be screened for MRSA and ESBL (including: doctors, nurses, nurse aids, physical therapists, dietitians, Janitors and other medical staff). PURPOSE: To define the...

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