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The health care workforce crisis is already here

Burned-out health care providers are headed for the exits — or fighting back.

Axios · Jun 7, 2024

Elderly, disabled Texans wanting to stay in their homes threatened by low home care pay

AUSTIN, Texas — For 40 hours a week, Angela Blankenship takes care of Rick Frame, who’s been paralyzed from the neck down since a 1999 motorcycle accident.

Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2023

Fight over health care minimum wage yields a split decision in Southern California

LOS ANGELES — An expensive fight over health worker pay in two Southern California cities appears to have ended in a draw, with each side claiming a victory and a loss.

Tribune News Service · Nov 18, 2022

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Labor tries city-by-city push in California for $25 minimum wage at private medical facilities

A class of health care facility support staff, including nursing assistants, security guards, and janitors, has worked alongside doctors and nurses throughout the covid-19 pandemic keeping patients and medical buildings safe and clean. It’s an unassuming line of work that some people consider a calling.

Tribune News Service · Oct 27, 2022

'I’m exhausted': Why these nurses are preparing to strike — and others already have

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Stanford nurse Mark O’Neill could have quit his job caring for desperately ill COVID and cardiac patients, joining the exodus of other health care workers seeking a reprieve from the stress of the past two years.

Tribune News Service · Apr 23, 2022

New state laws restrict abortion pills

Doctors abilities to consult patients on abortions is being further restricted by new legislation

Salon · Apr 15, 2022

Doctors trying to prescribe abortion pills across state lines stymied by legislation

Soon after Dr. Mai Fleming finished her medical residency in the San Francisco Bay Area, she got to work on her Texas medical license. The family medicine doctor had no intention of moving there but invested nine months to master Texas medical law, submit to background checks, get fingerprinted and…

Tribune News Service · Apr 10, 2022

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