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The California Nurses Association hosted a town hall Wednesday to discuss ways to prevent the planned closure of the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center’s Berkeley campus, which would eliminate the city’s only emergency room.
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BayHealth — a joint venture between UCSF Health and John Muir Health — is set to open its first outpatient and urgent care center in West Berkeley in 2018.
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UCPD responded to four alcohol-related illness incidents between Saturday night and Monday morning, less than half as many as compared to last year during the same period.
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Given last year’s upswing in alcohol intoxication incidents among incoming freshmen, law enforcement officials and emergency personnel are beefing up resources to respond to a potentially high caseload of drunk students needing medical attention this weekend.
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After a night earlier this semester when Berkeley’s emergency response system was stretched beyond its limit, the city’s fire department began developing a new system to track the number of emergency calls generated by UC Berkeley students.
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Registered nurses at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley went on their sixth strike Thursday along with six other East Bay hospitals in protest of contract negotiations with Sutter Health Corporation.
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Workers at the Alta Bates Medical Summit Center in Berkeley submitted a petition Tuesday requesting a switch in labor unions, in what they deem an effort to better protect their contracts and gain more democratic representation.
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