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CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION
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Kaiser registered nurses across California will hold more than 20 informational pickets on Wednesday, Nov. 10 to warn the public against Kaiser’s unsafe, new “Home All Alone” patient-dumping scheme that sends patients in need of hospitalization back home, where they will be overseen remotely by health care providers located miles away, announced the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) today.
“If someone needs to be hospitalized, they need to be in an actual hospital and under the care of highly skilled, educated medical professionals who are able to touch, assess, monitor, and respond to critical and emergent situations which can mean the difference between life and death,” said National Nurses United President Deborah Burger, RN. “It is ludicrous to think a provider many miles away will be able to provide optimal care to patients who need to be hospitalized. There is no rapid response team at your home. There are no nurses to watch for changes in your skin color, your breathing, or to feel the dampness of your skin. Nurses know that small changes can signal big problems. This is a blatant attempt to increase profits by sacrificing high-quality patient care.”
What is the Home All Alone model?
In the Home All Alone scheme, surgical and emergency room patients who would normally be admitted into the hospital for 24-hour, hands-on care are not admitted, but instead sent to their homes where staff monitor them and coordinate their care from a virtual command center.
“As nurses, we are horrified that Kaiser would advance this patient-dumping scheme that so clearly endangers the lives of our patients and completely disregards the central role that nurses play in providing hands-on care that promotes healing,” said Burger. “Nurses and other health professionals cannot be replaced by iPads, monitors, and a camera. Our patients deserve much more than this and should flat out reject Kaiser’s program. To send patients home and call that ‘hospital care’ debases what hospital care means, endangers patients, and is an insult to patients, nurses, and all the many health care professionals who provide care in hospital settings.”
- What: Informational picket to condemn Home All Alone patient-dumping scheme
When: Wednesday, Nov. 10
Where: Redwood City Medical Center, 1100 Veterans Blvd, Redwood City
Time: 6:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Contact: Avery Fuerst, 408-439-5433
Where: San Francisco Medical Center, 2425 Geary Blvd, San Francisco
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Contact: Gustave Feldman, 510-206-0251
Where: South San Francisco Medical Center, 1200 El Camino Real, South San Francisco
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Contact: Gustave Feldman, 510-206-0251
Where: Richmond Medical Center, 901 Nevin Avenue, Richmond
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Contact: Benjamin Sizemore, 510-326-4075
Where: Santa Clara Medical Center, 700 Lawrence Expy, Santa Clara
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Contact: Diego Valdez, 408-476-1493
Where: Walnut Creek Medical Center, 1425 South Main St., Walnut Creek
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Contact: Rachele Savola, 510-326-6381
Where: San Rafael Medical Center, 99 Montecillo Road, San Rafael
Time: Noon – 2:00 p.m.
Contact: Lisa Maldonado, 510-520-6031
Where: Fremont Medical Center, 39400 Paseo Padre Pkwy, Fremont
Time: Noon – 2 p.m.
Contact: Avery Fuerst, 408-439-5433
Where: Antioch Medical Center, 4501 Sand Creek Rd, Antioch
Time: 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Contact: La Tasha Winslow, 279-800-7407
Where: Oakland Medical Center, 3600 Broadway, Oakland
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Contact: Benjamin Sizemore, 510-326-4075
Where: Vallejo Medical Center, 975 Sereno Drive, Vallejo
Time: 3:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Contact: Ian Selden, 707-535-6747
Where: San Leandro Medical Center, 2500 Merced Street, San Leandro
Time: 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Contact: Supreet Pabla, 510-599-4030
Where: Santa Rosa Medical Center, 401 Bicentennial Way, Santa Rosa
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Contact: Lisa Maldonado, 510-520-6031
Where: San Jose Medical Center, 250 Hospital Parkway, San Jose
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Contact: Isabel Olazcoaga, 408-921-7484
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the nation with 100,000 members in more than 200 facilities throughout California and more than 175,000 RNs nationwide.
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