What Your UNAC/UHCP Caregivers Want You To Know About Kaiser Care 

We do a lot more for Kaiser than just catch babies. We drive evidence-based care. We reduce morbidity and mortality for women. We lower preterm birth rates. We lower C-section rates. We improve outcomes overall — and we save Kaiser money.

Michelle Sai

Certified Nurse Midwife, Kaiser Modesto

Our patients deserve excellent, compassionate care — but in Southern California home health, we’re being forced to see more patients faster. Rushed visits strip away the time, care, and decency our patients need and deserve.

Amanda Rucker

Registered Nurse, Home Health, Kaiser Panorama City

As midwives, we care deeply for our patients through life-changing moments. We’re called to this work—but that passion is taken for granted. We don’t complain; we just give everything. Yet it leads to burnout. Many midwives feel underpaid, unappreciated, and that’s not right.

Misty Ceja

Certified Nurse Midwife, Kaiser Woodland Hills

Our wait times are through the roof because patients can’t get access to their primary care physicians — their appointments are three and four months out. One of the things we’ve been fighting for is just a seat at the table and having the people who provide care to our patients have a say in how and when that care is provided.

Zachary Pritchett

Registered Nurse, Emergency Department, Kaiser Los Angeles

Patients wait four to six weeks for appointments when they should be seen weekly. We’ve tried for years to get staff but hit roadblocks. They keep adding tasks without adding people. Three of us see nine patients in eight hours—skipping lunch and paperwork time to make it work.

Robert Kikuchi

Physical Therapist, Kaiser Maui Lani Clinic

The pace never slows—one more call light, one more chart, one more med. You move room to room like you’re on a timer. And when you finally leave, you still see the faces you couldn’t help enough, the scared patient you couldn’t sit with because five others needed you.

Nicole Wooten

Registered Nurse, Surgery, Kaiser Riverside

Patients hold up their phones so we can see wounds—it’s become routine. But you can’t assess virtually; care takes all five senses. By the time they reach us, it’s often too late—healed wrong or infected. It breaks my heart. I wasn’t trained to let people down.

Diana Guerrero

Wound Ostomy Nurse, Kaiser Los Angeles wound clinic

We’ve lost 25% of our colleagues to other systems, leaving heavier workloads and longer waits. We unionized to fix it, but Kaiser has stalled for 18 months while patients suffer. They’ve exploited our compassion to keep profits high and pay executives millions.

Cameron Cook

Nurse Anesthetist, Kaiser Redwood City

We go into health care to care for our communities, but the corporate machine makes that harder every day—shifting focus away from patients. I believe in Kaiser and the system, but it’s time they step up and invest in their people.

Steve Bazan

Nurse Anesthetist, Kaiser Moanalua

There are days when I’m struggling to manage five patients at once. Two wake disoriented after surgery and need me bedside; another needs help to the bathroom. It’s never easy to walk away—but if we don’t advocate for our patients, who will? We care for them, and we have to speak up.

Tonja Sweeney

Registered Nurse, Surgery, Kaiser South Bay

We’re stretched so thin it’s putting patients at risk. We make Kaiser profitable, yet work short-staffed with little support. We’re only human—our patients deserve better. We give everything to care for them, but Kaiser must step up and give us what we need to do our jobs safely.

Nikki Avey

Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery, Kaiser Permanente San Marcos

Whether we’re pharmacists, nurses, or therapists, we share one goal: to care for our patients safely. We don’t need pizza parties—we need training, staff, and real support. After COVID burnout, we’re united again—for our patients, for each other, and for the future of health care.

Neda Moghaddam

Pharmacist, Kaiser San Diego Central refill

“We’ve been 25% understaffed for more than two years. We come to work exhausted, but we keep showing up for our patients. We just want Kaiser to listen—to give us the support and staffing we need to provide the care our patients deserve.”

Kelsey Kosmadakis

Certified Nurse Midwife, Kaiser Modesto

We keep admitting more patients without adding the staff needed to care for them. When we don’t have enough nurses, patients don’t always get the care they deserve.

Marla Hunt

Registered Nurse, Kaiser West Los Angeles