Los Robles Regional Medical Center Hospital
UPDATE: At the Bargaining Table, Speaking Healthcare Workers’ Truths to Corporate Power
July 21, 2026
This week, we delivered our petition, signed by more than a thousand Nurses and Licensed Medical Professionals from Riverside Community Hospital and Los Robles Regional Medical Center. Management sat stone-faced—a captive audience—as we read our demands for safer staffing, stronger security, reliable equipment, and real investment in Nurses.
Alicia M., a Riverside Community Hospital Mother-Infant Unit Nurse, looked management in the eye as she chastised them for their “failure to understand how dangerous the hospital has become” for patients.
“Every near miss adds to our anxiety,” said Alicia M., a Mother-Infant Unit Nurse at Riverside Community Hospital.
Alicia shared that recently, a newborn baby required extensive resuscitation. There weren’t enough specially trained nurses on hand to maintain patient safety. Alicia reported it wasn’t an isolated incident, but one of many on her unit and throughout the hospital. “Every near miss adds to our anxiety,” she said.
We made it clear that HCA, which profited $7.8 billion last year, can and must do better. We’re at the table to make sure that they do.
So far, we’ve tentatively agreed to more than one-hundred articles, and there are another fifty in management’s court. Included are articles on flexing, securing work in the event of a unit closure, ensuring there are break nurses to maintain safe staffing, safe floating practices and being prepared for a public health emergency.
We’re back at the bargaining table on August 11. Stay tuned.
Unsafe staffing, security failures, a system designed for profit over care: Tell HCA the hard truths it doesn’t want to hear.
“I’ve been a Pharmacist at Los Robles Regional Medical Center for more than 30 years and I’ve lived in Thousand Oaks for just as long. I’ve seen our staffing and standards decline over time, along with our reputation in the community.
My neighbors tell me that they’re scared to come to our hospital. That pains me, because I’ve come to work every day for three decades with goal—to take care of my nurses and my patients.
Inside the hospital, it is now all about metrics. Everything is reduced to a number. We’re told to meet arbitrary corporate-wide benchmarks, rather than to meet our patients’ needs. Our professional staff has been reduced to the bare-bones, which can significantly delay care. Our technical staff, whom the professionals rely on, are stretched to the limit. It is an unsafe environment.
At the bargaining table, we are seeking solutions. Instead of working with us, management has made a concerted effort to make the union irrelevant—often in ways that are petty. By refusing to allow us to bring in food for Professionals Week, or attempting to deny our right to wear union buttons, they have tried to intimidate us and diminish our power. We must not let them win.”
—Betty Wong-Kirk, Pharmacy, Los Robles Regional Medical Center
HCA in the news: More on the reported security failures at HCA’s Los Robles Regional Medical Center in the aftermath of an officer-involved shooting: VC Star: Nurses say slow security & communication made them feel unsafe when police shot patient at Los Robles Regional Medical Center. →
