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Palo Alto Gets Midwife-Led Maternity Clinic From Startup Millie and El Camino Health
A tech-enabled maternity startup is teaming up with a South Bay hospital system to open a joint clinic in Palo Alto, blending midwife-led outpatient care with hospital labor and delivery services. The clinic, located at 4300 El Camino Real, Suite 201, is set to open in December, with Millie and El Camino Health partnering on maternity care.
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John Muir Health Recognized for Providing High-Quality Cardiovascular and Stroke Care
Concord and Walnut Creek, CA – John Muir Health’s Concord and Walnut Creek Medical Centers are once again being recognized nationally for delivering high-quality heart disease and stroke care. The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® awards are given to hospitals for demonstrating...
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Pleasant Hill Hospice Workers Strike as Layoffs Threaten 1,200 Dying Patients' Care
About 70 nurses, social workers, chaplains, pharmacists and bereavement counselors at Hospice East Bay walked off the job Monday, launching a seven-day strike at the nonprofit's Pleasant Hill facility on Buskirk Avenue. The workers, represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, are protesting planned layoffs of 21 full-time employees — including the facility's own executive director — along with stalled contract talks, benefit cuts and staffing reductions they say will gut end-of-life care across the East Bay.
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Hayward Hospital Workers Stage Die-In, Warn Funding Cuts Could Shutter St. Rose
Healthcare workers lay down on the lawn outside St. Rose Hospital in Hayward Thursday, staging a die-in to dramatize what they say is a looming threat to the facility's survival: federal healthcare funding cuts that have left Alameda Health System facing a $100 million funding gap. The demonstration came weeks before California voters decide the fate of Proposition 40, a one-time wealth tax on billionaires that labor groups are pitching as a lifeline for hospitals like St. Rose.
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Oakland: Oakland School District Reopens Dental Clinic To Expand Access To Care
Oakland Unified School District has reopened a dental clinic at Frick United Academy of Language after more than two years of closure, restoring access to free dental care for students and families in a community with significant oral health needs. The clinic, housed in the Frick Family Wellness Center, is...