UAPD Worksite Leaders met with Director Marvin Southard this month to discuss on-going health and safety problems, including recent cases of doctors being threatened inside the clinic or assaulted outside of it. Possible solutions include installing panic buttons in...
UAPD Updates
Legal Consultation Fund: A Resource for UAPD Members
Starting January 1, 2010, any UAPD member who has received a formal written notice of suspension, termination, or limitation of medical staff privileges can apply to receive up to $500 per case and per year to pay for legal consultation. The fund will be used to pay...
Free CME: Prescriptions for a Violent Society
Friday, April 29, 2011 • 10 am - 2:30 pm Miramonte Resort and Spa 45000 Indian Wells Lane, Indian Wells, CA [member] To register online, click HERE. [/member] [member] Download Course Flyer HERE. [/member] Four (4) Complimentary CME/CE Credits Available for UAPD...
NEVHC Clinic Providers Vote to Join UAPD!
A group of medical professionals working at the thirteen clinics that make up the Northeast Valley Health Corporation (NEVHC) voted last week to unionize, becoming part of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD) in the process. Today, representatives of...
Napa State Hospital in the News
In reponse to the violent attacks at Napa State Hospital and other Department of Mental Health facilities, UAPD-represented doctors have been speaking on the record with the press to bring public attention to the problem of patient and worker safety in the state's...
Ventura County Doctors Fight For UAPD
More than sixty physicians in Ventura County has been fighting to join UAPD for more than four years, staying committed to the idea of having a union even though their employer has opposed it at every step. “The main reason we wanted a union is that county management...
Doctors Tell Senator Evans and Assemblymember Allen about Safety Crisis
Mental health workers say they fear for their very lives By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen / Times-Herald ... Psychiatrist Patricia Tyler said that in her 25 years in the profession, she has never worked any place more dangerous than Napa State Hospital. "It is not safe," she...
DMH Consultant Nirbhay Singh Abruptly Resigns
Singh, Consultant to California Mental Hospitals, Abruptly Resigns By Lee Romney and John Hoeffel / Los Angeles Times / January 28, 2011 ... His resignation, which is effective Tuesday, comes less than two weeks after The Times interviewed a top state Department of...
January Update for Los Angeles County Bargaining Unit 324 – Physicians
On Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Bargaining Unit 324 union stewards, bargaining team members and worksite leaders met with representatives from the LA County Department of Health Services (DHS) Employee Relations. The Union and Employee Relations discussed the DHS...