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Kaiser Permanente mental health professionals have been on strike for a month. Therapists are demanding Kaiser’s administration hire more mental health care workers and improve its retention rate with wage increases and better benefits.
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Workers at Kaiser Permanente’s mental health clinics in Hawaiʻi are holding a strike to address its understaffing crisis. HPR’s Zoe Dym talked to clinical psychologists rallying outside of Kaiser’s Honolulu Medical Office.
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Dr. Tarquin Collis, the chief of infectious disease at Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi, predicts an uptick in cases in another month if trends of BA.5 in Europe and across the country hold.
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Maui Health is limiting patients to one visitor per day for two hours. With Maui Memorial Medical Center being the only acute care hospital on the island, CEO Michael Rembis said the change will get ahead of surging community transmitted COVID-19 cases. HPR's Sabrina Bodon has more.
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About 50 mental health behavioral specialists with Kaiser Permanente continued their three-day strike on Oʻahu and Maui on Friday.
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Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians planning to go on a three-day strike say they want increased funding and additional staff amid a "growing demand for mental health services."
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Dr. Irina Crook, a physician at Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi, has been working as a medical volunteer at a camp on the Ukraine-Poland border over the last month.
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On March 11, some of Hawaiʻi's health care heroes marked the pandemic’s second anniversary with a private gathering at Kaiser Moanalua. Dr. Tarquin Collis, the chief of infectious disease there, reflected on the difficult two years — and shared lessons learned.
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Higher levels of chloride in Honolulu's water may be the result of a lack of rainfall coupled with reduced draw from the city's aquifer; The National Guard says it's better prepared to respond to the next pandemic; Health care workers say we've come a long way since the first COVID-19 cases, but long COVID lingers overhead
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An alliance of unions representing 50,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in California, Hawaiʻi and six other states has called off a strike notice after reaching a tentative labor deal with the health care network. Both sides announced the agreement on Saturday, staving off a potentially crippling strike.