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SEIU United Healthcare Workers West
The SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is a statewide local union of the Service Employees International Union in California in the United States. In 2020, it had 97,000 members, down from nearly 150,000 in 2013. UHW is headquartered in Oakland, California and has offices statewide. UHW is an industrial union representing all classifications of health care workers in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health agencies as well as homecare workers. Ballot propositions SEIU-UHW has filed dozens of ballot initiatives since 2012, generally proposing increased regulations on healthcare companies; few if any have passed. In the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections, three successive propositions from SEIU-UHW related to kidney dialysis clinics appeared on the California statewide ballot. The 2020 measure would have required a physician on-site during all dialysis treatments, among other requirements; the 2022 measure loosened this and would require a physician, physician assist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 California Proposition 23
Proposition 23, officially the Protect the Lives of Dialysis Patients Act Initiative, is a California ballot proposition that appeared on the ballot for 2020 California elections, the general election on November 3, 2020. The proposition would increase regulations in Californian Kidney dialysis, dialysis clinics, requiring them to have on-site physicians during treatment, report data on infections that might have been caused by dialyses, seek permission from the government of California prior to closing a clinic and strengthening anti-discrimination protections for dialysis patients. An overwhelming majority of California voters rejected this measure, by a margin of 63% to 37%, a margin of 26 percentage points. Background Among other regulations, discrimination against patients on the basis of the source of payment for their care would be explicitly outlawed. ''Last Week Tonight with John Oliver'' outlined many of the problems inherent in the dialysis industry in California.Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |