After receiving $73 million in federal covid stimulus and advance Medicare payments, this hospital is abruptly shutting down when we most need hospital beds.
This cannot stand, for-profit systems are extracting wealth at the cost of people’s lives.
As the Los Angeles region reports zero percent ICU capacity amid the #Covid19 pandemic, hospital chain Alecto is moving forward with the closure of @OlympiaMC_LA.
The closing is more proof that the for-profit health care system doesn't work!
#CalCare
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@NathanClimb Cause yesterday they were like “Now, we don’t want to jump to any conclusions about what this looks like... why don’t you rascals head home and we’ll just reach out if it turns out forcing entry into the capital ‘actually’ is a crime” 🤷🏻♂️
@JoeBiden Heroes? We just care about others, our for profit healthcare system is forcing us to be heroes or let people die. Don’t call us heroes... TAKE ACTION and get Medicare for all passed so we don’t need to be heroes to do our job. Thanks in advance. -A Covid ICU Nurse #Medicare4All
LARGEST TUITION STRIKE EVER. More than 2,500 Columbia students have pledged to withhold tuition until our democratically-supported demands are met. We are so proud to work with the organizers at @MADatCU, @ColumbiaSJP, @GWCUAW, @XR_NYC & @sunrisecolumbia for the #CUtuitionstrike.
@NNUBonnie Healthcare is a public good. Period.
BUT acting as an industry prioritizing the accumulation of wealth for a few at the cost of massive debt for the many. This is wrong. We need to stand up against this behavior and advocate for the health of our patients and our society.
80% of the people who died in Texas jails from COVID-19 had not been convicted of a crime.
Incarceration should never be a death sentence, but the data is unequivocal: In Texas, and across the country, it has become one.
This makes no sense.
UCLA can notify its athletes when they have been exposed to #Covid19, and then offers them testing, but NOT nurses working at UCLA?!
Union RNs demand @UCLA must do better!
https://t.co/nyEhxPyqiz
Just concluded a secret action at UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium commemorating the 5 months since the LAPD & others used the parking lot to detain protesters on June 1. Attendees formed a mosaic of tiles with handcuffs on the asphalt of the lot and heard from speakers.
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Congratulations to the hundreds of thousands of courageous women in Poland who are out on the streets standing up for democracy and the right to control their own bodies.
https://t.co/YHgmqTK2qJ
Congratulations to the Chilean people on the results of last night’s vote!
By overwhelmingly voting to rewrite a dictator’s constitution, you have shown the world the power of collective action. https://t.co/HLn7Di6M99
While Donald Trump paid just $750 in U.S. federal income taxes during the first year of his presidency, he paid $188,561 in taxes to China. How's that for America first? So much, Mr. President, for standing up to the big, bad communist government of China. What a fraud.
In Donald Trump's America, public health officials receive death threats for helping to keep us safe. This is the result of an administration that smears science, spreads conspiracies, and incites violence at every turn.
A doctor saw an overlap between people using ERs for health care and those who aren't registered to vote. So he founded VotER:
Health workers wear a badge with a QR code. Scanning it takes patients to a site about registering.
Over 300 hospitals use it. https://t.co/sm4t0Ebp5j
A patient in psychiatric crisis was shot by a sheriff's deputy at Harbor UCLA Medical Center & is now in critical condition.
DPH Must Divest stands in solidarity with Harbor UCLA staff & community calling to remove law enforcement from all health care settings.