Elected Officials, Caregivers Picket Community and Mission Hospital
Labor Desk
February 02, 2010
Tell management to put patients first at hospital.
HUNTINGTON PARK, CA – Community leaders, including State Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), Carson City Mayor Jim Dear, Inglewood City Councilman Ralph Franklin, and Sergio Calderon, Division 4 Director of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California, and healthcare workers picketed Community and Mission Hospital of Huntington Park to urge the hospital to make the necessary changes to provide quality patient care to better serve the community. Also at the picket were representatives of State Senator Ron S. Calderon (D- Montebello) and Assemblyman Isadore Hall (D-Compton).
The Huntington Park Hospital provides healthcare services in one of L.A.'s most densely populated areas. Unfortunately, management at Community and Mission is refusing to listen to frontline caregivers´ requests to improve hospital safety, to set safer staffing levels, and to maintain the current workforce to preserve the hospital´s quality patient care.
State Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles) stated, "This week we heard the president say that we must prioritize jobs, the economy and healthcare. No where in southern California is the challenge to do so greater than at Community and Mission Hospital. I commend the workers and their union leadership for offering reasonable proposals to ensure that the delivery of healthcare services will continue in Huntington Park with dignity and respect for both workers and the community. I make myself and the resources of my office available to both management and the union to promptly resolve this dispute."
In 2008, the owner of Community and Mission Hospital, Karykeion Inc, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Karykeion Inc, is in the process of selling the hospital to Avanti Health Systems in an agreement that would impose severe contract changes on the healthcare workers ranging from salary cuts to immediate termination, which could have a profound effect on the care and services provided at the facility.
"I have been working here at Community and Mission Hospital for 41 years. I am very proud of the care we have provided and will continue to provide," said Gail Scanland, a licensed vocational nurse at the facility, who lives in the City of Paramount. "We want to be able to continue serving our communities as we have."
The workers, members of the Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), are calling on Avanti and Karykeion to honor their contract and refrain from engaging in unfair labor practices – a violation of federal labor law. They want to preserve the quality care provided to the community.
HUNTINGTON PARK, CA – Community leaders, including State Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), Carson City Mayor Jim Dear, Inglewood City Councilman Ralph Franklin, and Sergio Calderon, Division 4 Director of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California, and healthcare workers picketed Community and Mission Hospital of Huntington Park to urge the hospital to make the necessary changes to provide quality patient care to better serve the community. Also at the picket were representatives of State Senator Ron S. Calderon (D- Montebello) and Assemblyman Isadore Hall (D-Compton).
The Huntington Park Hospital provides healthcare services in one of L.A.'s most densely populated areas. Unfortunately, management at Community and Mission is refusing to listen to frontline caregivers´ requests to improve hospital safety, to set safer staffing levels, and to maintain the current workforce to preserve the hospital´s quality patient care.
State Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles) stated, "This week we heard the president say that we must prioritize jobs, the economy and healthcare. No where in southern California is the challenge to do so greater than at Community and Mission Hospital. I commend the workers and their union leadership for offering reasonable proposals to ensure that the delivery of healthcare services will continue in Huntington Park with dignity and respect for both workers and the community. I make myself and the resources of my office available to both management and the union to promptly resolve this dispute."
In 2008, the owner of Community and Mission Hospital, Karykeion Inc, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Karykeion Inc, is in the process of selling the hospital to Avanti Health Systems in an agreement that would impose severe contract changes on the healthcare workers ranging from salary cuts to immediate termination, which could have a profound effect on the care and services provided at the facility.
"I have been working here at Community and Mission Hospital for 41 years. I am very proud of the care we have provided and will continue to provide," said Gail Scanland, a licensed vocational nurse at the facility, who lives in the City of Paramount. "We want to be able to continue serving our communities as we have."
The workers, members of the Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), are calling on Avanti and Karykeion to honor their contract and refrain from engaging in unfair labor practices – a violation of federal labor law. They want to preserve the quality care provided to the community.
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