Case managers are Registered Nurses who manage the discharge of patients and their ongoing treatment plans after leaving the hospital. At UC Davis Health, case managers are increasingly dealing with short staffing, high patient loads, burnout, and turnover as we are forced to do more with less. Currently, we have approximately seventeen vacancies and are also struggling to retain social workers who do much of the same work but are paid far below competitive market rates.

All of this has real impacts on our patients. If UC Davis Health doesn't take this issue seriously, it's going to continue impacting patient care. Without adequate staffing of case managers and social workers, we can't free up beds for new patients, patient discharges can be delayed, and potentially serious mistakes can occur in the ongoing treatment of our patients.

Our work is a labor of love, but that doesn’t mean that we deserve to be taken advantage of by management at UC Davis Health.