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CIR Executive Committee Statement on Charlottesville Protests
August 14, 2017 We are outraged at the demonstration of violence, hatred, and racism perpetrated by white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA over the weekend, and our thoughts are with the families of Heather Heyer, Lt. H. Jay Cullen, and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates. As advocates for justice, we stand in solidarity with all of…
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Downtown LA Dignity Health Docs to Hospital: Where’s the dignity in taking away affordable healthcare for our families?
Los Angeles – Around 30 physicians and nurses rallied at noon today outside California Hospital Medical Center, a Dignity Health facility. The hospital’s 24 Family Medicine residents organized a “Unity Break” and press conference during their lunch in response to the hospital’s proposal to increase healthcare costs for its employees by up to $2,100 a year,…
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Residents Rally to Save Health Care
CIR members and our allies in SEIU have been working tirelessly to oppose the devastating cuts to Medicaid proposed in the GOP healthcare bill. Together with our partners, SEIU has held hundreds of events and made more than 260,000 phone calls to Congress to stop this dangerous effort. CIR Regional Vice President Dr. Alex Nguyen stood…
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Our Hearts Continue to Go out to All Affected Bronx Lebanon Shooting
On July 6th an evening a vigil was held at Bronx Lebanon to honor Dr. Tracy Sin Yee Tam and Police Officer Miosotis Familia. Dr. Tam who was a former resident at Palisades Hospital was killed at Bronx Lebanon last Friday afternoon and Officer Familia who responded to the Bronx Lebanon attack, was killed in…
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Cambridge Residents Prioritize Mental Health Access
Dr. Michael Alpert, MD, Psychiatry Cambridge Health Alliance I’ll be honest, I was skeptical about the role of a resident union, given you’re locked into being at the hospital for a set amount of time. When I first hear about CIR as a first-year Psych resident, I was thinking, “What kind of collective action power could…
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UCSF Residents Fight for Patient Care and a Seat at the Table; Join CIR
Nearly 1,200 resident physicians at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) have formed a union as members of the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU Healthcare), joining a growing number of physicians across the country fighting for improved working conditions, the ability to negotiate their contracts, and resident-run efforts to improve patient safety…
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Know Your Rights on Immigration: How Residents Can Support Patients
On Wednesday May 17, 2017, a Know Your Rights workshop was held at CIR’s NYC office with experts from the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, NY Immigration Coalition, NY Legal Assistance Group, CIR Legal Services, and Cambridge Health Alliance. Residents received information on immigrant patient rights, resources to share with their patients, and information…
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Statement on Today’s Shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital
Friday, June 30, 2017 – Words can’t express our profound shock and sadness at today’s shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, where 350 CIR members work. Many of our members would have been at the hospital this afternoon, along with other physicians, nurses, orderlies, and other staff, as well as hundreds of patients. Current reports…
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St. Luke’s-Roosevelt CIR Members Tell Hospital: Be Fair to ALL of Those Who Care
After seven months of working under an expired contract while the President of Mt. Sinai Health System, the healthcare system that owns Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s and Mt. Sinai West (formerly St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center) earns in excess of $4 million per year, the housestaff took a major stand on June 8 to say…
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SF – Emergency Rally to Save Health Care
MEDIA ADVISORY San Francisco, CA June 22, 2017 Join physicians, healthcare providers, union representatives, and activists as they speak out against the American Health Care Act (AHCA) during a rally in front of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG, formerly San Francisco General Hospital, SFGH). If passed, the AHCA will cause 23 million American…
