Registered nurses at 17 hospitals managed by HCA have voted in favor of ratifying new three-year contracts in recent weeks, concluding a massive 2024 bargaining effort by nurses, and including measures to improve patient care, patient safety, nurse retention, and working conditions at their hospitals.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., voted in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract this week, winning measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. voted 97 percent in favor to authorize their nurse bargaining team to call a strike, should they deem it necessary, as HCA has refused to address numerous patient safety issues.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
RNs at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., will hold an informational picket on August 6 to protest management’s refusal to address RNs’ deep concerns about safe staffing and patient care.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at HCA-owned Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., will hold a rally on June 19 to protest HCA’s failure to seriously address nurses’ concerns in contract negotiations.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Registered nurses who work at Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals around the country, from New York to Ohio to North Carolina to Florida, held a national week of action in August. The nurses are calling on the VA to lift what is in effect a hiring freeze that has contributed to more than tens of thousands of vacancies across the health system, including thousands of RN positions.
Hannah Drummond, a registered nurse at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., appeared at a U.S. Senate subcommittee field hearing hosted by Sen. Ed Markey in Boston, Mass., on April 3. Drummond is the chief nurse representative at Mission Hospital.
When Mission Hospital nurses in Asheville, N.C. voted to join National Nurses Organizing Committee in September 2020, Kerri Wilson, an RN in the telemetry unit, knew she wanted to be part of the professional practice committee (PPC).
In December, Mission RNs applauded North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein for filing a lawsuit against HCA for violating the asset purchase agreement it made when it acquired Mission Health in 2019. The lawsuit alleges that HCA is not providing the quality, consistent emergency and cancer care it committed to deliver.
In the first private sector hospital union election win in North Carolina — the largest at any non-union hospital in the South since 1975 — RNs at Mission Hospital voted by a stunning 70 percent to join the nation’s largest RN union to secure a powerful voice for improved care and workplace safety.
