Tag: Nursing Homes

Press Coverage | April 3, 2025

Have Skilled Nursing Facilities Become Dumping Grounds for the Mentally Ill?

When the 911 call comes from inside the nursing home, health care workers are sometimes the victims. A couple of years ago, the trickle became a flood. Christina Lockyer-White had long known that the skilled nursing facility where she worked in...

Nursing Homes Mental Health Care Worker Safety Victory
Issues | June 24, 2024

Protect Nursing Home Staffing Standards and Medicaid Access!

On June 5, nursing home workers from our Union and other allies spoke to congressional leaders in Washington DC, calling on them to protect two new recently-announced rules that will positively impact long-term care workers and our families. Click here to...

Nursing Homes All Regions staffing standards safe staffing Medicaid
Campaigns | May 30, 2024

Improving our nursing home jobs with the Workforce & Quality Incentive Program (WQIP)

What is WQIP? WQIP offers state funding incentives to Skilled Nursing Facilities that meet staffing standards and improve the quality of care for residents. These standards encourage our employers to maintain safe staffing levels in our facilities. WQIP will provide...

Nursing Homes
Press Coverage | April 26, 2024

News Coverage of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra’s visit with SEIU 2015 home care workers

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra visited Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 24, to meet with workers from caregiver union SEIU Local 2015 and celebrate the Biden administration’s new rules to improve working conditions for those across America...

Nursing Homes Los Angeles Region 1 Xavier Becerra
Victory | Union Updates | Campaigns | December 20, 2023

Brius Nursing Home Campaign: Contract Ratification!

Click here to see our latest KTLA press coverage Click here to see photos PRESS RELEASE on Tentative Agreement In 2023, after months of bargaining and delivering a 10-day notice of intent to strike in October 2023, nursing home union...

Nursing Homes Livable Wage Region 1
Press Release | December 20, 2023

LA Area nursing home workers who threatened to strike reach ratification agreement with employer

Southern California—After months of bargaining and delivering a 10-day notice of intent to strike in October (10-day strike notice press release), nursing home union members from SEIU Local 2015 ratified contract agreements with management in December. Nursing home workers sought...

Nursing Homes Region 1
Press Coverage | September 18, 2023

Mr. Ayers beset by nursing home issues

Miscommunication leads to hospital With a new violin in hand, I walked into a nursing home for seniors in southeastern L.A. County, eager to see the look on my buddy Nathaniel’s face. A once-promising career as a classical musician was...

Nursing Homes
Events | July 6, 2023

Region 1 RBS Pickets Schedule

July 7, 2023 @ 10AM - 12PMEast Terrace Rehabilitation & Wellness2415 S Western AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90018 July 12, 2023 @ 10AM - 12PMMaywood Healthcare & Wellness Centre6025 Pine AvenueMaywood, CA 90270 July 13, 2023 @ 10AM - 12PMVernon Healthcare...

Nursing Homes Region 1 Rockport Brius
Press Coverage | July 5, 2023

Brius Healthcare nursing home workers hold month of pickets to protest high turnover and dangerously low staffing levels.

Members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union representing nearly 450,000 nursing home workers and home care providers, are picketing across Rockport Brius owned facilities in California to demand safer staffing standards...

Nursing Homes Understaffing All Regions Region 1 Brius
Press Release | July 5, 2023

Nursing home workers kick off statewide picket at Brius facilities to protest high staff turnover and dangerously low staffing levels

Los Angeles, CA – Members of SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care union and California’s largest labor union representing nearly 450,000 nursing home workers and home care providers, are picketing across Rockport Brius owned facilities in California to...

Nursing Homes Unsafe Staffing Levels Region 1
Media Advisory | June 26, 2023

SEIU 2015 member to join panel of California healthcare experts and advocates to discuss building a healthier health care workforce

Academics, advocates, and caregivers alike are leading the way to fix California’s broken long-term care industry in conversation around the newfound momentum behind proposed legislation like AB 1006 and AB 1672, the “Our Care Counts” bill. WHEN: Thursday, July 13,...

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