LOS ANGELES — For a third time, California voters rejected a statewide mandate to increase medical staffing at dialysis centers.
Proposition 29 would have required dialysis clinics to have a doctor, nurse practitioner or physician assistant present while patients are receiving care at any of the state's 600 dialysis centers. Clinics also would have been required to disclose if a physician had ownership interest in a facility and to report patient infection data.
This marks the third time in four years that voters rejected a ballot initiative pushed by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers that would change how dialysis providers care for the 80,000 people who rely on the life-saving treatment.
