This is the Opinion of NUHW
Kaiser Permanente, in an effort to deflect mounting criticism of its mental health care services from patients and their families, state regulators, and NUHW-represented Kaiser mental health clinicians, claimed in a press release earlier this week to have hired hundreds of additional therapists.
Kaiser’s misleading figures fail to account for staff attrition Kaiser has suffered due to the HMO’s patient-care failures, violations of state law, and declining working conditions. Read more.