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Switching to solid ground

Healthcare workers at Alta Bates will be switching to new union for stronger benefits

Whether it’s Alta Bates Summit Hospital rising above Ashby and Telegraph, or the Herrick Campus serving psychiatric patients, or the towering complex of health facilities at the Summit Campus near Downtown Oakland, East Bay residents are intimately familiar with Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. These are hospitals where our children Read More…

Registered nurses picket outside the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center on Telegraph Avenue to strike against proposed cutbacks.

Nurses strike outside of Alta Bates

Nurses protest cuts to healthcare and pay

Registered nurses picketed outside Alta Bates Summit Medical Center on Telegraph Avenue Tuesday morning to strike against the proposed cutbacks from Sutter Health Corporation. The nurses gathered starting at 7 a.m. for the third one-day strike held since the conflict with the corporation began, according to Eric Cook, a nurse Read More…

Kenya Wheeler, a 38 year old graduate student in city planning, recently ended chemotherapy after a seven month battle with brain cancer.

Faces of Berkeley: Kenya Wheeler, cancer survivor

Berkeley graduate student wins against cancer, loses insurance

On the top of his buzzed head, Kenya Wheeler has a thin, almost unnoticeable line where his hair does not grow — a surgical scar that reminds him that he, as a brain cancer survivor, will always have to live with the fear of relapse. For the last seven months, Read More…

Local nurses return to work Tuesday after five-day lockout

Following a statewide strike last week, local nurses will return to work Tuesday, amidst the investigation of the death of a patient at an Alta Bates Summit Medical Center campus in Oakland over the weekend. In anticipation of the Thursday union strike, the hospital hired replacement nurses for five days, Read More…