$1.2 Million Settlement Achieved in Peak Vista Community Health Centers, Case No. 27-CA-348024 et al.

On January 20, 2026, Region 27 approved an informal settlement, awarding a total of approximately $1.2 million dollars of backpay and frontpay (in lieu of reinstatement) to five doctors working at various facilities run by Peak Vista Community Health Centers (Respondent) in the Colorado Springs area. The award constituted 176% of the full backpay remedy. The Region alleged, in a complaint issued August 26, 2025, that the doctors were fired in July and August 2024 for collectively protesting and questioning the Center’s newly instituted requirement that they work additional hours without pay, and for their part in an initial organizing campaign with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). The complaint also alleged several threats made by Respondent and Respondent’s electronic surveillance of employees in response to their protected concerted and union activity. Thus, in addition to the monetary remedy, the Region secured a two-page notice posting which Respondent agreed to post physically and distribute electronically to its employees. The settlement resolves all the allegations in the complaint, which was set to go to hearing on January 26, 2026. 

Despite Respondent’s firing of the main union organizers, the UAPD was certified by the Regional Director of Region 27 as the majority representative of a unit of physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals on January 13, 2025. A request for review of the certification by Respondent is pending before the Board, as are allegations of Respondent refusing to recognize and bargain with the UAPD.