UCSF Health said Thursday that it was dismissing 200 employees across the system, around 1% of his workforce, in the midst of “financial challenges”.
Employees affected include rehabilitation specialists, clinical laboratory scientists and physiotherapists. They are members of the union of professional and technical employees (upte).
The UCSF claims that layoffs will help protect its ability to take care of patients in the years to come.
“Like many health systems across the country, the UCSF Health has increased operations costs while facing a reduction in reimbursements for services,” the UCSF said in a press release. “Although it is a difficult decision, it was necessary to maintain financial stability and continue to provide the many vital health services that we provide in San Francisco and in the Bay region.”
The UPTE published a statement Thursday in response to the notice of layoffs, affirming in part: “Many of these workers have occupied critical roles which supplied directly and supported patient care; posts which are already confronted with national shortages at a time when UC is struggling with a system of personnel on a system scale.”
The union continued to ask UCSF Health to immediately restore all dismissed workers.
The complete declaration of the upte:
“UCSF Health has issued notice to approximately 200 workers, including workers represented by university’s professional and technical employees (UPTE). Many of these workers have occupied essential roles that provided patients directly and supported patients; positions that are already faced with national shortages at a time when UC is confronted with a personnel crisis.
“Among the affected providers are rehabilitation specialists, clinical laboratory scientists (CL) and staff research partners. These workers are all responsible for supporting the diagnosis and recovery of patients in a timely manner, minimizing the length of their hospital stay. It is estimated that 70% of medical decisions are based on the clinical results of the laboratory.
“Recent reports in the San Francisco standard highlight the potential impacts of delayed care, because a patient has recently waited 52 hours in emergencies for care and was finally paralyzed by the moment it saw a doctor. Unfortunately, the average duration of the UCSF (alos) is higher than the average of the State and increased up to 40% between 2018 and 2023. Patients.
“We were already in the short term, and the layoffs mean that our patients will face delays in the necessary care of their suppliers. As a physiotherapist working with patients in neurological and cardiopulmonary intensive care units, my patients do not have the luxury of waiting. And studies show that early mobility is essential for rehability,” said Dana Loebman, Physiotherapist at UCSF is broken to lose my job, I am also incredibly concerned about my patients and the care they deserve.
“As a public hospital system of $ 10.2 billion, UCSF Health has the resources and the obligation to keep crucial staff who are an integral part of patient care for patients for patients.
“UC has not invested in front -line workers. In the past five years, management personnel has increased by 42.5%, while the number of professional problems and primary support increased by 18.6%. Money on remuneration, largely because we have not been able to provide vacancies through the system” and “(
“This tendency to prioritize the possibilities of investment on patients was consistent in all the work sites of the UC. Upte recently published a report entitled Priorities badly placed: how an endowment crisis at the University of California undermines public health, research and education which highlight the way in which leadership decisions have prioritized California students.
“UPTE calls on the health of the UCSF to immediately restore all dismissed workers and correct courses as a public institution. UC must act now to end harmful layoffs and ensure the safe personnel necessary to provide health care, research and quality education that the Bay region and Californians deserve.”