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But nurses said the state also needs to provide them with the necessary equipment to do their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not received any PPE (personal protective equipment) from the state of California,” said intensive care nurse Phoebe Minkler at a press conference Thursday. “As we prepare for this surge, we are critically low and we are already utilizing our emergency stockpile here at Seton Medical Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810381\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11810381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/007_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Phoebe Minkler, a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at Seton Medical Center, speaks during a press conference at the hospital on April, 2, 2020. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/007_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/007_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/007_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/007_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phoebe Minkler, a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at Seton Medical Center, speaks during a press conference at the hospital on April, 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Minkler said each nurse is now being issued only one N95 mask for each 12-hour shift, to help conserve supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nurses and frontline healthcare providers, we want to work, we want to be able to take care of patients. But we also have to be able to take care of ourselves and stay safe,” said Minkler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re losing healthcare providers, we’re losing nurses, physicians all over the country are falling ill to this disease,” she added. “In some places like New York they’re having to wear bandannas, they’re having to wear trash bags and things like that. We are hoping that we do not have to resort to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Resources\" postID=news_11807823]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seton Medical Center President Anthony Armada said that a recent delivery of N95 masks from San Mateo County’s supplies will last the hospital another 26 to 30 days, at the current rate of issuing one mask per shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armada said the hospital is following \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/hcwcontrols/recommendedguidanceextuse.html\">guidance\u003c/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about extending the use of N95 masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us are being responsible to make sure we are following their guidelines,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital is currently treating 15 COVID-19 patients, according to Armada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810382\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11810382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/018_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Debra Amour, a 62-year-old intensive care nurse at Seton Medical Center participates in a rally at the hospital on April 2, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/018_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/018_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/018_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/018_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debra Amour, a 62-year-old intensive care nurse at Seton Medical Center participates in a rally at the hospital on April 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many nurses are concerned about using the same masks to see multiple patients. ICU nurse Debra Amour pointed out the importance of protective equipment to slow transmission of the virus to healthy people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t have the right equipment, our choice is not to go into a room or go into a room and become part of the problem. We ourselves will get sick, and we can spread it into the community,” she said. “We have open heart patients. We have really sick, fragile patients. So for me to be in a room without a mask, without a gown, you’re just spreading the germs around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Nurses Association represents about 400 nurses at Seton, according to labor representative Julie Tran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810383\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11810383\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/009_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"John Avalos, former San Francisco Supervisor and an organizer for the National Union of Healthcare Workers, speaks at a press conference at Seton Medical Center on April 2, 2020. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/009_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/009_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/009_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/009_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Avalos, former San Francisco Supervisor and an organizer for the National Union of Healthcare Workers, speaks at a press conference at Seton Medical Center on April 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQEd)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco supervisor John Avalos, who is now an organizer for the National Union of Healthcare Workers which represents clerks and janitorial staff at Seton, said the union has been in touch with state and county officials about the need for more medical supplies like masks and gowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t just designate this hospital as a facility to receive lots of patients and not have the protective equipment that workers are going to need to know they’re safe when they’re saving lives,” Avalos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11810384\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11810384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/005_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Medical workers and supporters rally to raise awareness of the lack of N95 masks and other medical supplies at Seton Medical Center at a demonstration organized by the California Nurses Union on April 2, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/005_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/005_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/005_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/005_KQED_DalyCity_SetonMedicalCenter_04022020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medical workers and supporters rally to raise awareness of the lack of N95 masks and other medical supplies at Seton Medical Center at a demonstration organized by the California Nurses Union on April 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of Saturday, March 28, the California Department of Public Health released data that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR20-036.aspx\">73 healthcare workers statewide\u003c/a> had tested positive for COVID-19. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nurses’ contract with the hospitals expired on March 31. Talks for a new deal began in late January. A federal mediator is getting involved in the ongoing talks next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue are wages, retiree medical benefits and working conditions for the union’s 3,700 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s expensive to be able to afford to live here,” said Stormberg. “The cost of living has increased more than what the hospitals are offering for our wages. We need to be able to keep up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CRONA said the nurses face staffing shortages, long hours and long commutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hospital officials say their nurses are paid market-leading wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to further reward our nurses and have proposed a highly competitive compensation package,” Stanford Health Care representatives said in a statement before the strike authorization results were announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said it’s been able to retain nurses at a rate higher than the national average and can fill open positions, on average, faster than the national benchmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of nurses’ safety also intensified in recent weeks after a patient at Stanford Hospital’s psychiatric unit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11734674/cal-osha-launches-probe-into-attack-that-injured-two-stanford-hospital-psych-nurses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked a nurse\u003c/a> in her 70s, causing serious injuries. Another nurse who tried to pull the patient away was also hurt. Several agencies are investigating the March 12 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nurses deserve to be safe at work,” Stormberg said, adding that CRONA is asking hospital managers to allow nurses who are assaulted or threatened to be reassigned. “Incidents of threats or violence against health care providers, including nurses, are alarmingly high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A walkout could begin 10 days after the union’s leadership issues a formal strike notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the progress we have made by working constructively with the union, we remain optimistic that an agreement will be reached that will allow us to continue to attract and retain the high caliber of nurses who so meaningfully contribute to our hospitals’ reputation for excellence,” Stanford Health Care said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike would mark the first time in two decades that CRONA members walk off the job. In 2000, its nurses went on strike for 50 days, according to union officials.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s not a great time to get sick in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers are planning a strike at University of California San Francisco and the four other UC medical centers up and down the state Tuesday and Wednesday, May 21 and 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41223\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/28/are-hospital-patients-at-greater-risk-during-a-nurses-strike/nursesstrikesm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41223\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41223\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/nursesstrikeSM.jpg\" alt=\"California nurses have returned repeatedly to picket lines in front of Sutter Hospitals since September, 2011 (Justin Sullivan/Getty)\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California nurses have returned repeatedly to picket lines in front of Sutter Hospitals since September 2011. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, nurses in the East Bay are staging a separate strike at Sutter Hospitals for seven days, starting Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay walkout will affect more than 3,100 registered nurses, as well as respiratory, X-ray and other technicians at Alta Bates Summit facilities in Berkeley and Oakland, Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley and Sutter Delta in Antioch, the California Nurses Association \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/pages/cna/\">said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a strike May 23 and 24 will affect 1,400 RNs at two HCA-affiliated San Jose hospitals, Good Samaritan and Regional Medical Center, it said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university is pushing back on the strike at its medical centers. It persuaded the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) to seek a temporary restraining order that would “curtail the number of striking employees,” the university announced in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/29498\">statement\u003c/a> on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 10, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, which represents more than 12,500 UC patient care employees, announced it is asking members to strike UC medical centers on May 21–22. AFSCME-represented UC service workers also are expected to strike “in sympathy” with patient care employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University Professional and Technical Employees union, which represents about 3,300 UC health care professionals, is also asking its members to strike UC medical centers in sympathy with AFSCME for one day on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PERB is the state agency that oversees collective bargaining activities for public employers. It announced it would seek a temporary restraining order limiting the number of striking employees in the two unions after UC representatives argued that walkouts by certain essential employees threaten public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PERB officials told UC they intend to seek the injunction in Sacramento Superior Court on Monday, the university said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC patient care technical employees include technicians responsible for operating equipment for ultrasounds, X-rays, MRIs, CT scans, mammograms and other tests; radiation therapists who prepare and treat cancer patients; pharmacy technicians who deliver medications to patients; respiratory therapists who help patients with breathing and treatment plans; and technicians who sterilize equipment used in surgeries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university warned in a press release that diagnoses and treatments for both adults and children might be delayed because laboratory tests, imaging and other work normally performed by patient care employees may not be completed in a timely manner:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Some elective surgeries, including pediatric surgery and neurosurgery, may be postponed. Additionally, critical trauma patients may need to be diverted to other non-UC facilities that provide a lower level of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is highly inappropriate to threaten services to patients as a tactic in contract negotiations,” said Dwaine Duckett, vice president for systemwide human resources at UC. “We believe our current offer to AFSCME, which includes wage increases and good benefits, is very fair, and our pension reforms are similar to what has been implemented for state employees, some of whom are represented by AFSCME.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The union\u003ca href=\"http://www.afscme3299.org/2013/05/16/uc-medical-systems-must-reform-pensions-to-prioritize-patients/\"> says\u003c/a> it has a “patient protection task force that will tend to patients’ emergency needs during the strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday a resolution looked distant as the two sides couldn’t even agree about the grounds for their disagreement. Here’s how the university characterizes the issues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The two sides have split over the question of pension reforms.\u003cbr>\nThe university has asked for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Increased contributions toward the cost of pension benefits from both UC and employees (currently 10 and 5 percent respectively, increasing to 12 and 6.5 percent respectively July 1, 2013)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A new category (“tier”) of pension benefits for employees hired on or after July 1, 2013\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Revised eligibility rules for retiree health benefits\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But in a conversation with KQED’s Francesca Segré, AFSCME Local 3299 president Kathryn Lybarger stressed staffing levels. 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"content": "\u003cp>Last Saturday, Judith Ming, a 66-year-old patient at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, died due to an error committed by a replacement nurse. The nurse was on duty because the hospital, which had five-day contracts with substitutes for regular nurses on a one-day strike, locked out the regulars for an additional four days. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41223\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/nursesstrikeSM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/nursesstrikeSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nursesstrikeSM\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, both the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/26/MN4C1L9Q2L.DTL\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_18981627\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> reported learning that the patient was killed, in the Chron’s account, “by a nutritional supplement that a replacement nurse mistakenly put into a catheter meant for delivering medicine to her bloodstream.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nurses cited the tragedy in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/rns-call-on-sutter-to-end-lockout-ask-state-to-investigate-safety-violation/\">calling for an end to the lockout\u003c/a> when it was going on, citing patient safety. But recriminations aside, the death raises questions about the quality of hospital care during a strike. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the National Bureau of Economic Research published research on this issue. Written by Jonathan Gruber and Samuel A. Kleiner, the paper is called “Do Strikes Kill? Evidence From New York State.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/6746\">read the full paper here\u003c/a> (pdf); here’s an \u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w15855\">abstract\u003c/a>, which highlights the following conclusions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Controlling for hospital specific heterogeneity, patient demographics and disease severity, the results show that nurses’ strikes increase in-hospital mortality by 19.4% and 30-day readmission by 6.5% for patients admitted during a strike, with little change in patient demographics, disease severity or treatment intensity. This study provides some of the first analytical evidence on the effects of health care strikes on patients, and suggests that hospitals functioning during nurses’ strikes are doing so at a lower quality of patient care. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, KQED’s Mina Kim on Monday spoke with Dr. Joanne Spetz, a health care economist with UCSF, about this research. Here’s an edited transcript of the interview:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You analyzed a report that asked the question, “do strikes kill?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a paper that was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research; the two professors who worked on that are top-notch scholars. The quality of the research is excellent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found that there is a significantly higher risk of mortality in a hospital during a strike and that patients admitted during a strike were more likely to be admitted again later. Which is often a sign that the care during the initial hospitalization was inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why might that be? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to Professor Gruber about that not long ago. The paper concluded that issues arise that might compromise some of the standards of safety due to the uncertainty of having traveling or temp nurses filling in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that traveling nurses cannot provide excellent care; any of those nurses who fill in during strikes are top-notch clinicians. But they’re working in an unfamiliar setting, they often have never been in that hospital before, they don’t know which doctors to ask about what. They don’t’ necessarily know where every single supply is kept. They might not understand the computerized medical record system well, or it might be one they’ve never worked with before. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of things that are very different across every single hospital, and even across the units within the hospital that effect how a nurse is able to perform his or her job. So when you have temporary staff filling in during a strike, of course there’s more uncertainty for them in the work that they’re doing. I think the evidence of this paper is that very well may increase the level of risk faced by patients. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The nurses union is pointing at the hospital as responsible for the death. In situations where a death occurs and it is linked to a strike and the factors that the report points to, who’s responsible?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, from a legal perspective, the hospital as well as the particular nurse in question will probably be held responsible. But from a broader perspective, there’s plenty of blame to lay. For a union to engage in a strike, they must essentially be saying that the patient risk that’s higher during that strike is worth it for some gains they believe they will receive in the future. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now maybe in this case the union believes the working conditions are unsafe enough for patients that it’s worth taking that risk over a one-day strike in order to protect more patients in the long-term. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possibility is that during a strike, the patients who are in the hospital are the most severely ill, who absolutely have to be there. Usually, all of the elective surgeries and all the things that can be postponed are typically delayed until after the strike. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you have a patient population at higher risk simply because they’re sicker. 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