Prime’s Healthcare’s corporate healthcare model has left us short-staffed, and our patients suffer while corporate executives and investors get rich.

We demand Prime bargain in good faith and put our patients before their profits. It’s time to listen to caregivers, invest in staffing, and end the Prime patient care crisis.

Healthcare corporations like Prime Healthcare are failing caregivers and our patients. We are so understaffed our patients’ lives and well-being are being put at risk. We’re calling on Prime Healthcare to stop threatening and intimidating workers and bargain with us in good faith to solve this crisis for patients and caregivers.

Healthcare corporations have the money to solve this staffing crisis. In 2021, Prime Healthcare Services and the Prime Healthcare Foundation made more than $263 million in profits from its California facilities. Healthcare workers are leaving for other healthcare jobs or even leaving healthcare altogether. We’re calling on Prime Healthcare to stop threatening and intimidating workers and bargain with us in good faith to solve this crisis for our patients and caregivers.

Prime Healthcare can afford to hire more staff to ensure our patients get the care they need and deserve. They can help retain experienced workers by paying healthcare workers a fair wage that keeps up with inflation and the cost of living. We’re calling on Prime Healthcare to stop threatening and intimidating workers and bargain with us in good faith to solve this crisis for patients and caregivers.

Prime Healthcare has a track record of cutting staff and essential services to make a profit. In July, Centinela Hospital Medical Center announced it would close its Maternal Child Health Services on October 25, 2023, leaving the Inglewood community without any Labor and Delivery services.

Instead of using their millions in profits to solve the staffing crisis, Prime Healthcare is focused on trying to silence caregivers for raising concerns about patient care and worker burnout. We’re calling on Prime Healthcare to stop threatening and intimidating workers and bargain with us in good faith to solve this crisis for patients and caregivers.

Prime Healthcare can and must do better.

Approximately 1,800 Prime Healthcare employees are members of SEIU United Healthcare Workers West at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, Garden Grove Hospital and Medical Center, and Encino Hospital Medical Center. They work in various jobs including licensed vocational nurses, certified nursing assistants, medical assistants, emergency room, radiology, and respiratory techs, and many other fields. Their contract expired in June this year.

Prime Healthcare key strike location: 

Prime St. Francis Medical Center, 3630 E. Imperial Highway, Lynwood, CA 90262

• Monday, Oct. 9, 7 am – Strike Kick-Off
• Tuesday, Oct. 10, 11 am – 1 pm – Rally with multiple unions and community groups

Additional Prime Healthcare strike lines will run daily, Monday – Friday, 7 am – 6 pm

• Prime Centinela Medical Center, 55 E. Hardy Street, Inglewood, CA 90301
• Prime Garden Grove Hospital Medical Center, 12601 Garden Grove Blvd, Garden Grove, CA, United States, California
• Prime Encino Medical Center, 16237 Ventura Boulevard, Encino, CA 91436