Jobs of more than 200 “team members” will be eliminated, announced managers of the health care provider.
“On Monday, June 23, UC San Diego Health made the decision difficult to eliminate around 230 positions from the team of its clinics and hospitals.
“The decision was taken only in response to the rise in financial pressures caused by federal impacts on health care, regulatory uncertainty and increase in care costs combined with Medicare reimbursement rates, Medicaid and insurers who do not follow the rate of the real cost of care,” said the press release, in part.
Officials said that around 230 jobs were being reduced, around 1.5% of its staff with more than 14,000 employees.
It is not known exactly what the terms of separation are for affected workers, but the supplier said that they “would receive all the university advantages due to them through HR policies, including professional support services.
Parties in medical staff take place across the country, according to UC San Diego Health officials.
NBC 7 contacted UC San Diego for more information on layoffs, including affected services, and we were told “we have no additional comments”.
Friday, the union of the Professional and Technical University (UPTE) published a declaration which said that many of these workers occupied critical and first line roles which provided directly and supported care to patients “, adding that affected workers included” pharmacists, clinical social workers and laboratory scientists working in the blood bank “.
Sam Warsh, dietitian of UC San Diego Health and member of the UPTE negotiation team, is cited in the liberation of the union.
“Not only are these layoffs completely useless and have a negative impact on the health and well-being of patients and the UCSD community, but they were apparently not carried out without consideration for continuity or quality of care,” said Warsh in part cited.
Warsh continues by saying in the press release that a social worker who was dismissed was invited to leave “without finishing his patient notes or correctly handing over their workload to another supplier”.
By concluding his declaration, Upte called UC San Diego Health to “immediately restore all dismissed workers”.
UC San Diego’s declaration is whole below:
On Monday, June 23, UC San Diego Health made the decision difficult to eliminate around 230 positions from the team members of its clinics and hospitals.
The decision was taken only in response to the rise in financial pressures caused by federal impacts on health care, regulatory uncertainty and increase in care costs combined with Medicare reimbursement rates, Medicaid and insurers who do not follow the rate of the real cost of care.
UC San Diego Health is not alone. Staff discounts are experienced by health systems across the country. The reduction in UC San Diego Health is about 1.5% of the total workforce.
The employees concerned will receive all the university advantages due to them through HR policies, including career support services.
We are grateful for the formidable contributions from our affected employees, as well as the continuous support of our extraordinary teams.
UC San Diego Health is proud of its long history of providing constant employment to tens of thousands of San Diegans. We continue to support an agile and resilient workforce of more than 14,000 members of the team who give access to care for safe, reliable and high quality patients throughout the region.
The complete declaration of UPOS is below:
Today, UC San Diego Health has issued dismissal notices to around 230 workers, including workers represented by university professional and technical employees (UPTE). Many of these workers occupied critical and first -line roles which supplied directly and supported patient care; Posts that are already confronted with national shortages at a time when UC is struggling with a personnel crisis on a system scale.
Among the affected providers are pharmacists, clinical social workers and clinical laboratory scientists working in the blood banking – essential positions to save lives and ensure safe, quality and accessible health care. 70% of medical decisions are based on clinical laboratory results. 1 UCSD Clinical laboratories report staff levels that are already so low that they are affected by laboratory errors could lead to a serious impact of patients.
UC San Diego Health has the resources and the obligation to maintain crucial leading staff who is part of patient care. So far, Upte has heard of at least five examples where the staff has been returned to the house without being able to finish their tasks or transmit their patients. This includes a hospital pharmacist who was dismissed without having replacement available to perform his work quarter, as well as a social worker who was returned to his home before finishing notes of vital patients.
“The layoffs announced by the UCSD do nothing to mitigate the existing crisis of the staffing on staff impact on patient care. Not only are these layoffs completely useless and have a negative impact on the health and well-being of patients and the UCSD community, but they are not made without consideration for continuity or quality of care “,” said Sam Warsh, a dietitian 4 to UC San Diego Health and member of the UPTE negotiation team. “I have been alarmed to learn that one of our social workers who performs psychosocial evaluations and provides emotional, psychological and practical support to patients undergoing one of the most complex and most that lengthened life in terms of cancer to another campus supplier. We wonder to ask ourselves if the UCSD even considered the probable impact on our patients. ”
UC San Diego Health Leadership has cited “severe financial constraints” as a reason for these cuts, but the facts tell a different story. No significant federal reduction in the financing of the UC has been made, the most recent state budget proposal requires a 5% increase in the basic financing of the UC, and UC San Diego continues its expansion of the hospital, increasing the demand of patients while reducing first -line workers. In addition, UC San Diego Health recently provided a Loan of $ 20 million in Palomar Healththat they are largely widely considered to be looking for now to acquire, while simultaneously putting crucial members of the UCSD health care team.
This tendency to prioritize investment opportunities on patients was consistent in all UC work sites. Upte recently published a report entitled Malted priorities: how a staff crisis at the University of California is undergoing public health, research and education This underlines how leadership decisions have prioritized fixed assets on California students and patients. At UCSD Hillcrest in 2023, 5.6% of patients ER left without being seen – an increase of 4.1% in 2019 – and more than twice higher than the average state of 2.6% .2 UCSD nurses also report waiting times for patients up to 7 hours in emergencies
This has led to the current staff crisis, which is exacerbated by layoffs like those that occur at UCSD Health.
Upte calls UC San Diego Health to immediately restore all dismissed workers and correct courses as a public institution. The UC must act now to end harmful layoffs and ensure safe dottis to help front -line workers offer health care, research and education on which San Diegans and Californians count.