

SEIU-UHW Dialysis Workers Picket
Wed, Aug 09
|Satellite Healthcare dialysis center
Dialysis Caregivers to Picket Fresenius Kidney Care, Satellite Healthcare Over Understaffing, Low-Wages, Patient Care Crisis


Time & Location
Aug 09, 2023, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Satellite Healthcare dialysis center, 6265 Commerce Blvd #156, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA
About the event
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Renée Saldaña, (213) 479-5137
July 31, 2023 rsaldana@seiu-uhw.org
Dialysis Caregivers to Picket Fresenius Kidney Care, Satellite Healthcare Over Understaffing, Low-Wages, Patient Care Crisis
OAKLAND, Calif. – Fresenius and Satellite Healthcare dialysis caregivers across California are the latest round of healthcare workers to join statewide protests over the short-staffing crisis in the state’s healthcare system. Protests will be held at 21 locations on August 9 and 10.
“We are severely understaffed and stretched so thin. We used to have a one to three patient ratio, but over the years it’s become one to eight, and if someone calls out sick it becomes one to twelve. It happens a lot,” says Jose Manuel Gonzalez, a certified hemodialysis technician preceptor III at Fresenius Kidney Care for over 25 years. “We have to rush, to work as fast as we can, and the quality of service really suffers. I’m considering…