WESTERN MEDICAL CAREGIVERS RATIFY NEW CONTRACT

Settlement Includes 'Fair Election Agreement' for Additional Hospitals

ANAHEIM - Caregivers at Western Medical Center-Anaheim, represented by SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW), voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract, strengthening their ability to improve patient care and ending months of negotiations.

The new 3-year agreement with Integrated Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (IHHI) includes safe
staffing committees that give caregivers a real voice in patient care, significant wage increases
that bring caregivers closer to industry standards, retiree medical benefits and a jointly funded
Education program to provide career ladder training opportunities.

"We are thrilled to have made such amazing progress in this contract," said Joe Ruocco, a Senior
Lab Assistant who's worked at Western Medical Center for 34 years, "What we achieved will
give us a real voice to improve care for our patients and will help us attract and keep the best
caregivers in the area."

The contract also creates a Fast and Fair Election Agreement, allowing caregivers in IHHI's
other Orange County hospitals to organize without employer intimidation. "IHHI is giving
caregivers the respect they deserve by allowing us to choose to form a union without
interference," said Ruocco.

"Our mature, productive relationships with Kaiser Permanente and Catholic Healthcare West
prove that we can work together toward our common goal of improving patient care," said Jorge
Rodriguez, chief negotiator and Executive Vice President of UHW. "We're very pleased that
IHHI has chosen a path to partnership where it can work constructively with caregivers to
provide patients the highest quality care available. We call on other area hospitals to do the
same."

The 200 caregivers covered by the contract include Nurse Assistants, Surgical Technicians,
Radiology Technologists, and Lab Assistants, among many others.

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SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West, with more than 140,000 members, is the largest and most powerful healthcare union in the Western U.S. We represent every type of healthcare worker, including nursing, professional, technical and service classifications. Our mission is to achieve high quality healthcare for all.