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SF Supervisors Hold Hearing on Kaiser’s Push to Expand AI Use, Lay Off Mental Health Staff

Behavioral health clinicians from Kaiser met with the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday to discuss language in the company’s contract demands that would allow them to expand AI use for mental health care while laying off more employees.

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Shooting at Kaiser Medical Offices In San Jose Leaves Two Injured

A man and a woman were reportedly shot and critically injured Monday morning in what police are calling an isolated incident at a Kaiser medical office building in San Jose.

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Day Around the Bay: 23 People Charged In Sunday’s Bay Bridge Dirt Bike Takeover

Eighteen people contracted legionella infections from an outbreak linked to Kaiser's Santa Clara Medical Center; the Trump administration wants to allow sending guns through the mail; and Oakland police charged 23 people in connection to the Bay Bridge takeover Sunday.

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Kaiser Has Plans For Big New Hospital at Geary and Divis

Kaiser Permanente is preparing to submit plans to the city for the company's first new hospital in San Francisco in over 70 years, and it would replace its existing hospital at Geary and Divisadero.

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Sunday Links: Pro-Trump Counter-Protestors Crash ‘No Kings’ Rally in Palo Alto

Some Glen Park residents are perplexed by Time Out's coining their beloved neighborhood as cool; Mayor Lurie was conspicuously absent from Saturday’s “No Kings” rally in SF; and some MAGA supporters showed up to Palo Alto’s “No Kings” protest.

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Kaiser and Healthcare Workers Reach Tentative Deal, Ending Largest Healthcare Strike In U.S. History

The biggest healthcare worker strike in the nation’s history technically only lasted three days, but resulted in a 21% wage increase for pandemic-frazzled employees of the Oakland-based healthcare conglomerate Kaiser Permanente.

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Humpday Headlines: Kaiser Employees, SF School Staff Head to Picket Lines

23,000 Kaiser employees in the Bay Area went on strike this morning; custodial and other staff at SF public schools are almost definitely headed for a strike as well; and SFO is hosting an airtaxi conference.

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Kaiser Permanente to Pay $49 Million State Settlement for Improper Disposal of Medical Waste and Patient Records

Undercover trash inspectors found thousands of patient records, pharmaceutical drugs, syringes vials containing human blood and bodily fluids, and hazardous materials like batteries, aerosols, and electronic waste at 16 Kaiser medical facilities.

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Kaiser Reaches Tentative Agreement With Unions; NorCal Outpatient Pharmacies Could Still Be Affected

Just two days before at least 24,000 Kaiser Permanente employees were set to go on strike to advocate for better wages and working conditions, a tentative agreement for a four-year contract with labor unions was made — staving off the majority of the planned walkouts.

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Kaiser Strike to Affect All NorCal Outpatient Pharmacies; Patients Recommended to Fill Prescriptions Before November 15

Citing low wages and less than ideal working conditions, thousands of nurses and other health care workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals will go on strike on November 15 — directly affecting prescription refill services at Kaiser outpatient pharmacies in Northern California.

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Day Around the Bay: Kaiser Suspends 2,200 Unvaccinated Employees

Santa Clara County is giving out $76 million in pandemic "hero pay" to its employees, Kaiser is suspending 2,200 workers for not being vaccinated, and Giants playoff tickets are selling fast.

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Kaiser Emergency Room in San Jose Center of COVID-19 Outbreak After 43 Staff Members Test Positive

At least 43 staff members at the Kaiser Permanente San Jose Emergency Department have tested positive for COVID-19 within the past week. The unlikely culprit for the explosive outbreak? An inflatable Christmas costume.

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'Thrive City' Is the New Name for the Development Around the Chase Center, Thanks To Kaiser

The new mini-neighborhood around the Chase Center in Mission Bay, which includes 29 new retail shops and restaurants, is going to be dubbed Thrive City thanks to a sponsorship deal from Kaiser Permanente.

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State Regulators Fine SF Hospitals For Fatal Mistakes

Two San Francisco hospitals are facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, after state healthcare regulators said they failed to properly treat patients who died in their care. According to the California

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Video: Meet Thelma The Singing Housekeeper At Kaiser Hospital

Leah Garchik's latest Chronicle column includes a great little tidbit about local character Esperanza Thelma Paumboy, a housekeeper at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in SF who wanders the halls alternately mopping

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Morgellons Disease A Crock Says CDC; Not So Says Bay Area Doctor

The CDC just conducted their first official study into the validity of Morgellons disease a bizarre phenomenon in which patients, including Joni Mitchell, insist that they have small fibers or threads growing under

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36-Year-Old Man Dies Sunday at Finish Line of Half-Marathon

A 36-year-old man collapsed and died right after crossing the finish line of the Kaiser Permanente Half Marathon Sunday morning. The man has just been identified as 36-year-old Peter

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15,500 Northern California Kaiser Medical Records Stolen

by Amy Crocker Medical records for around 15,500 Northern California Kaiser patients - 9,000 from the Bay Area - were compromised after an external drive was stolen from a Kaiser employee’s car

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Photo du Jour 289

Thrive, indeed.

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Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Half Marathon & 5K

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Sicko On Buildings

Now, you could either watch the trailer for Michael Moore's new movie Sicko (about HMOs and universal health care) here on your computer (above)... OR, you could go outside and watch

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SFist Cares ... Give a Kid a Book Already

This fall 3,700 Bay Area/Northern California disadvantaged youngsters, many of whom have never owned their own book, will take part in an innovative literacy program featuring a cast of centuries-old

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My Dolly, My Dolly

A twenty-thousand dollar, programmable robot intended to simulate the many complications that can arise during childbirth, she urinates, breathes, and "ultimately delivers a plastic doll that can change colors, from a