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Submitted by ADonahue on November 3, 2022
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Group pic of Trinity behavioral health unit nurses marching on the boss.

Trinity nurses to hold press conference condemning behavioral health unit shutdown

RNs at HCA Florida Trinity Hospital, in Trinity, Fla., will hold a press conference on Oct. 3 to speak out about their concerns regarding HCA’s shutdown of their hospital’s behavioral health unit.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
September 29, 2023

Group of four nurses outside hold signs "Staff up for safe care"

Registered Nurses will hold vigil Dec. 9 to condemn the impending shutdown of HCA Florida Osceola Hospital’s nursery on Dec. 12

Starting Monday, Dec. 12, the hospital will eliminate the dedicated nursery nurses who receive and care for newborns, and assign this role to nurses who are watching other patients in labor, which is not safe.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
December 7, 2022

Group of four nurses outside hold signs "Staff up for safe care"

Registered Nurses to hold rally Nov. 29 protesting HCA Florida Osceola Hospital scheme to slash birthing services to parents and newborns

The scheme is officially scheduled to begin Dec. 12, but the hospital started making operational changes in units providing birth care this past summer, including reassigning nurses to the NICU without adequate training.  

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
November 28, 2022

Group of five nurses inside Palmetto Hospital

Nurses at Steward Health Care hospitals in South Florida vote resoundingly to ratify new contracts

The new contracts support improvements in patient care and will strengthen each hospitals’ capacity to retain and recruit registered nurses, which is a priority given the staffing crisis at each facility.

Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
October 12, 2022

Nurses outside hold signs criticizing Steward Health's treatment of their patients

RNs at Steward Health’s Florida Medical Center in Lauderdale Lakes to protest proposed shut down of emergency and in-patient services for psychiatric patients

After shutdown patients needing acute psychiatric care will be turned away.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
August 10, 2022