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Community members are invited to Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Wednesday for a town hall-style meeting on the push for national health-care reform.
The 10 a.m. gathering at the hospital’s Founders Hall Auditorium, 420 34th St., is part of hospital owner Catholic Healthcare West’s...
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Here's another letter to the editor forwarded to me on the budget cuts to Medi-Cal.
This one is signed by the CEOs of Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Kern Medical Center, San Joaquin Community Hospital and Mercy Hospitals of Bakersfield.
What do you think? Does this spur you to action?
This...
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The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development released hospital and surgeon death rates last week for a common surgical procedure for treating coronary heart disease.
This report is part of a statewide push for more transparency in health care, state officials said. (Read...
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Instead of striking Tuesday, Bakersfield Memorial Hospital nurses will be voting on their new contract. The nurses and the hospital's management have reached an agreement.
But while both parties seem to have the same contract, hearing them talk about it would lead you to think otherwise....
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The California Nurses Association, which represents the Memorial nurses, gave the hospital notice Tuesday afternoon of a Dec. 5 strike, said Diane Hirsch-Garcia, contract negotiator with CNA.
If the nurses strike, it won't affect business at Memorial, said Jon Van Boening, Memorial's...
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Tension between nurses at Bakersfield Memorial and Mercy hospitals and the hospitals' management is increasing as both groups try to hammer out a contract. Below is a story I wrote in today's paper about a demonstration the nurses held last night and what both sides are saying about the...
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