What do the patient care and policy issues raised by SEIU have to do with the union?
As a multi-faceted reform campaign, the SEIU Hospital Accountability Project is working together with patients, workers, and the community to raise awareness about patient care and policy issueslike discriminatory pricing and racial health disparitiesto restore justice at Chicagos largest private health care provider, Advocate Health Care. As a union we believe that the ultimate way to raise standards in health care is by giving caregivers a voice in decisions that impact their patients, their families, and themselves. But were also speaking out on behalf of patients and communities, too. Consumers and patients feel the same frustrations with the bottom-line decision-making of Advocate executives as the front line caregivers who work there. Every time a patient is price gouged, every time a hospital unit is short staffed, and every time a suburban hospital investment is proposed while urban communities are ignored, we all suffer.
