Packard Children's and Stanford Hospitals Are Prepared for Strike by Union; Patient Care Is #1 Priority.STANFORD, Calif. -- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) is a hospital located on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California. It is staffed by over 650 physicians and 4,750 staff and volunteers. and Stanford Hospital Stanford Hospital is located at 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California, 94305.[1] It is world-renowned for its work in cardiovascular medicine and surgery, organ transplantation, neurology, neurosurgery, and cancer diagnosis and treatment. & Clinics regret that, after two months of good faith negotiations, and despite the hospitals' "last, best, and final" contract offer, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU SEIU Service Employees International Union SEIU Special Education Intake Unit SEIU Secondary Education Interdisciplinary Unit SEIU Software Engineering Institute Union ) has announced today that they will begin a strike on December 12. Both Stanford Hospital and Packard Children's engaged in good faith negotiations with the SEIU throughout the process. At the same time, in order to be prepared for any eventuality, both hospitals have been contingency planning to ensure that if any form of work stoppage should occur, both hospitals will be prepared to continue delivering quality care. "Patient care is our number one priority and we've made a commitment to maintain normal operations Generally and collectively, the broad functions that a combatant commander undertakes when assigned responsibility for a given geographic or functional area. Except as otherwise qualified in certain unified command plan paragraphs that relate to particular commands, "normal operations" of during this period," stated Martha H. Marsh, President and Chief Executive Officer of Stanford Hospital & Clinics. "Systems are in place to ensure that we can care for our patients with non-SEIU staff and the many SEIU workers we expect will choose to work during this walkout." The union represents 1,412 out of 8,432 employees at the hospitals. Represented positions include hospital support employees in jobs such as housekeeping, food service, nursing assistants, and certain technicians. The most recent three-year contract between the hospitals and union expired on November 13 but talks continued through November 21. "Our approach to bargaining focused on proactively addressing the issues that are of greatest concern to our SEIU-represented employees," said Christopher G. Dawes, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. "While we would like to return to the negotiating table, we have made our last, best, and final offer and it is very fair and competitive. If the union presents a proposal that is within the framework of our offer, we will, of course, return to the table." Among the hospitals' proposals are increased wages over the three year agreement totaling across the board increases of a minimum of 12%, with additional market adjustments to many job classifications. These increases are in addition to the 2% increases most employees receive with each additional year of service. We also offered significant improvements to both health insurance and retirement benefits, offers to enhance the utilization of educational benefits, and new provisions relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc job security in the event of layoffs. Said Dawes, "These employees are very important to our mission and we hope they can enjoy the benefits of this offer very soon." About Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Ranked as one of the nation's top 10 pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. hospitals by U.S.News & World Report, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is a 264-bed hospital devoted to the care of children and expectant mothers. Providing pediatric and obstetric ob·stet·ric or ob·stet·ri·cal adj. Of or relating to the profession of obstetrics or the care of women during and after pregnancy. obstetrical, obstetric pertaining to or emanating from obstetrics. medical and surgical services and associated with the Stanford School of Medicine, Packard Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. offers patients locally, regionally and nationally the full range of health-care programs and services from preventive and routine care to the diagnosis and treatment of serious illness and injury. For more information, visit http://www.lpch.org. About Stanford Hospital Stanford Hospital & Clinics is a university-owned, non-profit corporation known for advanced patient care. The 613-bed hospital in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern consistently ranks among the top in the nation in surveys by consumers and health professionals. Stanford Hospital & Clinics, in cooperation with the Stanford University Medical School, has pioneered medical advances that save lives and protect against disease. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.stanfordhospital.com. |
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