Underscoring the long-term need for greater public control of our health care infrastructure, the corporate owner of Olympia Medical Center, a 200+ bed hospital in the heart of Los Angeles, just announced it will be completely shuttering the facility in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic -- right as infections and hospitalizations surge to their worst levels nationwide, statewide, and locally, and as Los Angeles reports zero percent ICU capacity. The hospital intends to close despite also having received more than $27.6 million in combined Covid stimulus money and advance Medicare payments.

National Nurses United joined with people across the United States to express shock and horror at the right-wing assault on the U.S. Capitol today and called for those promoting it to be held accountable.

Registered nurses at Methodist Hospital of Southern California will hold a socially distant, silent event on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2020 to protest its use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

Registered nurses at Sutter California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) will hold a press conference at noon on Wednesday Dec. 30 to protest the hospital’s use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

Registered nurses and caregivers will hold a car caravan Tuesday, Dec. 29 declaring their opposition to the healthcare district’s application for a blanket waiver of state-mandated safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.

Last week on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, registered nurses at Rideout Memorial Hospital, overwhelming ratified a new three-year contract which nurses say will provide important patients care improvements as well as gains in wages and benefits to help with recruitment and retention of nurses.

In a positive development for San Francisco patients, nurses, and frontline health care workers, administrators at UC San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) and Sutter Health Network’s California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) Van Ness and Mission Bernal campuses announced they were rescinding their applications for waivers of state-mandated nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.

Registered nurses who work in the Sutter Health’s Sutter Center for Psychiatry Hospital in Sacramento have voted by 83 percent to join the California Nurses Association.

Registered nurses at KPC Global Hospitals will hold informational pickets at each hospital on, Wednesday, Dec. 23 to protest the recent waiver on safe staffing standards that has been granted to acute care hospitals.