Patients head to the Kaiser Oakland Medical Center as Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers strike nationwide in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. About 75,000 healthcare workers across the country take part in the largest strike in United States history. Workers demand higher wages and solutions to staffing shortage. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Kaiser Permanente, confronted with a massive nationwide strike that includes 23,000 Bay Area workers, has shut a number of out-patient pharmacies across the region.
The strike over under-staffing, wages and other issues is set for three days, but the union coalition representing workers noted Wednesday that workers had voted to stop work for up to 10 days. The strike could be extended if the unions cannot come to an agreement with the health care giant, the coalition said.
Kaiser advised its patients to order medications by mail at kp.org/pharmacy or by calling, in Northern California, 1-888-218-6245. In-patient pharmacies will stay open, Kaiser said.
Here are the Bay Area out-patient pharmacies that Kaiser said Wednesday are closed through Friday:
SOUTH BAY:
At the San Jose Medical Center, the pharmacies in buildings 1 and 3, and the discharge pharmacy
At the Campbell Medical Offices
At the Milpitas Medical Offices
PENINSULA:
At the Mountain View Medical Offices
At the Redwood City Medical Center, the pharmacy in the Marshall Medical Offices
At the San Mateo Medical Offices
At the San Bruno Medical Offices
At the Bayhill Medical Offices in San Bruno
At the Daly City Medical Offices
At the South San Francisco Medical Center, the Pharmacy Annex
ALAMEDA COUNTY:
In Oakland, at the Fabiola Building
At the Alameda Medical Offices
At the Berkeley Medical Offices
At the Pleasanton Medical Offices, the South Pharmacy
At the Union City Medical Offices
At the Dublin Medical Offices and Cancer Center
At the Livermore Medical Offices
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY:
At the Antioch Medical Center, the Deer Valley pharmacy
At the Delta Fair Medical Offices in Antioch, the Diablo pharmacy
At the Park Shadelands Medical Offices in Walnut Creek, the Sequoia and Yosemite pharmacies
At the Walnut Creek Medical Center, the discharge pharmacy
At the Martinez Medical Offices
At the Pinole Medical Offices
At the San Ramon Medical Offices
SAN FRANCISCO:
At the Geary Medical Offices in San Francisco at 2238 Geary Blvd., the 6th Floor Pharmacy
At the San Francisco Mission Bay Medical Offices, the 1st Floor Pharmacy
At the French Campus in San Francisco, the 1st Floor Pharmacy
MARIN COUNTY:
At the Downtown San Rafael Medical Office
At San Rafael Park
At the Novato Medical Office
Originally published at Ethan Baron