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WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyrocketing hospital charges have become a major factor in driving up overall healthcare costs, and exaggerating a healthcare crisis nationally as increasing numbers of Americans are priced out of access to needed medical care or pushed into financial ruin or bankruptcy, say nurses. It's also a reminder of the ongoing gaping hole in the Affordable Care Act on its weak provisions for controlling costs, says National Nurses United, the nation's...
Nurses Union's Political Attacks on Hospitals Undermine Access to Quality Health Care SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement is being issued by C. Duane Dauner, President/CEO, California Hospital Association: Governor Jerry Brown will be issuing his May Revision to the state budget today, making this a day to focus on important and substantive fiscal and policy issues. Instead, the California Nurses Association is focused on two flawed...
TORONTO, May 10, 2013 /CNW/ - In the quest to cut costs and balance hospital budgets, Ontario hospitals are sacrificing the health of registered nurses, according to new research. Registered nurses (RNs) are the most injured workers in Ontario, facing more dangerous workplace conditions than even construction or manufacturing workers. RNs filed more Workplace Safety and Insurance Board claims in 2012 than all other hospital occupations, three times more claims than made by...
In Newspaper Ad, Union Questions How Proposed Changes Could Affect Patient Care YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nurses at Northside Medical Center are calling on hospital management and its national corporate owners to come to the bargaining table this week ready to work together to reach an agreement that will continue the facility's record of quality patient care. As part of its campaign to focus community attention on the fact that Northside nurses are...
Cites His Commitment to Issues Important to Nurses, their patients and the state-wide labor movement CANTON, Mass., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Massachusetts Nurses Association National Nurses United (MNA/NNU), the largest union of registered nurses and health professionals in the commonwealth, today announced that it has endorsed State Representative Marty Walsh for Mayor of Boston. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20060525/NETH016LOGO ) "Our endorsement of...
After Posting More Than $88 Million in Profits, UMass Memorial Medical Center Has Slashed its Nursing and Support Staff in the Last Two Years and Has Gone From Being the Best Staffed Hospital in the City to the Worst, While Also Posting Among the Lowest Rankings in the State for Quality Patient Care WORCESTER, Mass., April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to deteriorating patient care conditions, the registered nurses who work at the Worcester-based hospital campuses...
SEATTLE, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On April 2, 2013, the Washington State Supreme Court in the case of Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA) v. Sacred Heart Medical Center (SHMC), reaffirmed its earlier unanimous decision upholding nurses' statutory rights to be paid overtime when their duties prevent them from taking a rest period. Sacred Heart Medical Center's motion for reconsideration of the Court's October 25, 2012 (No. 86563-9,10/25/12) decision was...
Nurses Look Forward to Opportunity to Negotiate a Settlement to Address Serious Patient Care Concerns and to Avert the Need for a Strike Editor's Note: Follow this link to view a detailed report on the patient safety crisis at Quincy Medical Center http://www.massnurses.org/files/file/News/2013/March/Quincy-Medical-Center-Patient-Care-Crisis.pdf QUINCY, Mass., April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal mediator has scheduled a meeting between the Quincy Medical Center...
RNs say, "Our number one concern is patient safety. As nurses, we can safely care for four patients at any one time; we are being required to care for six on a regular basis - risking the health and welfare of our patients. Something must change." HAVERHILL, Mass., April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patient safety and protection will take center stage as registered nurses working at Haverhill's Merrimack Valley Hospital (MVH) will hold a community rally on Friday, April 5 from...
After filing more than 150 reports of what RNs consider to be unsafe patient care and greater patient risk with the hope that hospital administrators would rectify the situation and negotiate with RNs, which they did not, 94% of the nurses voted in favor of the strike Editor's Note: Follow this link to view a detailed report on the patient safety crisis at Quincy Medical Center http://www.massnurses.org/files/file/News/2013/March/Quincy-Medical-Center-Patient-Care-Crisis.pdf...
