Thursday marks one month since over 2,000 Kaiser Permanente mental health care workers went on strike to demand increased staffing and improved access to care for patients who sometimes must wait months for therapy appointments.
NUHW had proposed that Kaiser consider increasing staffing that would alleviate"unsustainable" workloads that the union says has led to high turnover among mental health care workers at the HMO.
The American Psychological Association recommends weekly therapy for people with depression -- double that for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. California fined Kaiser $4 million in 2013 for delayed and denied mental health care, but wait times for mental health care have not improved.
An NUHW survey of more than 200 departing clinicians found that 80 percent found their workloads unsustainable and 70 percent cited the inability to"treat patients in line with standards of care and medical necessity." "When I first began working here, we used to be fully staffed," Bumgardner said at the picket line outside Kaiser San Jose on Thursday."It used to be hard to get a job at Kaiser. People wanted to work here and people stayed a long time. But in the last 10 years, the majority of people that start usually leave before they've even been here three or five years."
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