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Subject: Health Care Services Sector

  • Alliance between SEIU and nursing home chains now defunct

    June 26, 2007
  • Note to the Privately Insured: St. Luke's Wants You!

    By Lauren Smiley Billboards have popped up around the city this month in a new ad campaign from California Pacific Medical Center reading, "Rediscover St. Luke's....the SoMa gateway to California Pacific Medical Center. We're here to stay!" It sounds a tad bit defiant, but marketers figure that such chutzpah was in order for a money-bleeding Mission hospital that has battled rumors and the reality of closing before and after being merged by health-care giant Sutter Health at the first of

    December 15, 2008
  • U.C. San Francisco Reports Young Rapscallion Book-Selling Scam

    U.C. San Francisco has put out the word that anyone who receives an offer to buy books to supposedly benefit the city's Children's Hospital should do what those confronted with books did in Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 411: Call the authorities. Hospital officials have received reports of young men going door to door and selling books for roughly $40 a pop to supposedly benefit UCSF Children's Hospital. Hospital Executive Director Roxanne Fernandes -- who ougtta know -- recently confirmed that she's

    February 16, 2009
  • IHOP Pancake Giveaway to Benefit Local Hospital -- Depending Upon Your Definition of 'Local'

    If you like eating pancakes and helping kids -- and don't particularly care where those kids are -- IHOP has a deal for youIn one of the more stunningly bad product tie-ins in recent memory, the good people over at the International House of Pancakes have declared next Tuesday to be National Pancake Day. Next Tuesday, is, of course, Mardi Gras, a day best known for out-and-out boozing, carousing, and public indecency in exchange for a nickel's worth of Made in Taiwan plastic beads. What's more,

    February 19, 2009
  • Bogus UCSF Hospital Booksellers Just the Latest Scammers From Shady Company

    On Monday, we noted that San Franciscans were reporting door-to-door booksellers claiming to be fund-raising for UCSF Children's Hospital -- which was news to hospital officials. The UCSF Police have since confirmed that Terry Brisendine of the Michigan-based magazine clearinghouse World Wide Circulation reported to them that the still-unidentified young men were selling literature on behalf of the company. She stressed that the receipts given to those purchasing from the door-to-door sellers no

    February 20, 2009
  • Union, Heal Thyself

    Will a lobbyist for a local healthcare union extend a bill proven bad for patients' health?

    April 30, 2008
  • UCSF Is First Hospital in California with a Musician in Residence

    April 9, 2008
  • Nursing Home Lobbyist Quits After He Predicts SEIU Powerplay

    April 2, 2008
  • Union Disunity

    The secret deal worked out between SEIU bosses and nursing home owners denies union members the right to speak out, strike, or protect patients

    April 11, 2007
  • The Politics of Cynicism

    SEIU lobbies for nursing home chains. Clint Reilly vs. Jack Davis, redux. Kerry raises money for Reilly's wife. Fabulous. Absolutely Fabulous.

    April 27, 2005
  • Partners in Slime

    June 30, 2004
  • Best Children's Hospital

    UCSF Children's Hospital

    May 15, 2002
  • Hospital, Heal Thyself

    The rebuilding of the Laguna Honda nursing home is already three years behind schedule and millions over budget -- and the final plans aren't even finished yet

    August 15, 2001
  • Dirty Laundry

    September 8, 1999
  • Sutter's Empire Strikes Back

    Two lawsuits allege conflict of interest, sharp dealing

    January 21, 1998
  • Sutter's Giant Sucking Sound

    Sutter Health, which owns one of California's largest hospital empires, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity. Critics wonder why Sutter dispenses so little charity, and vacuums so much profit, from the hospitals it acquires.

    January 21, 1998
  • Daring Daylght Merger

    September 17, 1997
  • Temperature Rising

    The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

    March 19, 1997