{"id":187071,"date":"2025-12-16T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/187071\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:24:07","slug":"legacy-health-strike-grows-as-80-urgent-care-pediatric-care-providers-plan-walkouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/187071\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Health strike grows as 80 urgent care, pediatric care providers plan walkouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eighty medical providers at Legacy Health<\/a> plan to hold two-day solidarity strikes to support their Oregon Nurses Association-represented colleagues already on strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About 50 nurse practitioners and physician associates at Legacy-GoHealth Urgent Care clinics plan to strike from 8 a.m. Dec. 21 to 8 a.m. Dec. 23. <\/p>\n

Another 30 pediatric nurse practitioners and physician associates who work at Legacy clinics and Randall Children\u2019s Hospital plan to walk out from 8 a.m. Dec. 22 to 8 a.m. Dec. 24.<\/p>\n

They will join the roughly 140 advanced practice providers<\/a> \u2014 including nurse practitioners, physician associates and clinical nurse specialists \u2014 who began an open-ended strike Dec. 2. The workers have been trying to negotiate their first labor contract since they unionized in late 2023.<\/p>\n

Union officials said representatives last met with Legacy leadership about a week ago. Both sides said a federal mediator is assisting with negotiations, with bargaining sessions scheduled this week and next.<\/p>\n

Legacy officials said they are aware of the additional strikes and continue to focus on reaching an agreement \u201cthat supports our employees and the long-term stability of our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Union officials said the 80 workers briefly joining the strike delivered strike notices to Legacy management Friday, meeting the state\u2019s 10-day notice requirement for health care work stoppages.<\/p>\n

Union leaders said both bargaining units voted overwhelmingly to support their colleagues. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re joining the strike because the problems affecting our colleagues today will affect all Legacy (advanced practice providers) tomorrow unless something changes,\u201d said Jordyn Luttrell, a pediatric nurse practitioner at Legacy.<\/p>\n

She cited concerns about patient care, staffing levels, compensation. <\/p>\n

\u201cStanding with our colleagues is the only way to move Legacy toward a solution that supports both providers and patients,\u201d said Sara Lopez, a physician associate at Legacy-GoHealth clinics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighty medical providers at Legacy Health plan to hold two-day solidarity strikes to support their Oregon Nurses Association-represented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[108122,163,521,85,46,108123,108124],"class_list":{"0":"post-187071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-albina","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-legacy-emanuel","14":"tag-russell-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}