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.

Registered nurses at UC San Francisco will hold a press conference on Wednesday, Dec. 23 to protest its use of the state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

Registered nurses at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, Calif., will hold a shift change action on Wednesday, Dec. 23 to object to the recent waivers on safe staffing standards that acute-care hospitals are pursuing.

Registered nurses at Emanate Health in Covina, Calif., will hold a press conference on Friday, Dec. 18 to protest the recent waiver on safe staffing standards that has been granted to acute care hospitals.

HCA administrators are delivering a somber holiday season in their West Florida hospitals, say registered nurses, and RNs from eight West Florida HCA hospitals intend to remind the top executives of their betrayal of the holiday spirit for nurses and patients with a visit to HCA’s West Florida Regional offices today.

National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN, joins Tony Award-winning playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler) tonight at 5 p.m. PT/ 8 p.m. ET to present THAT KINDNESS, a play in nurses’ own words, to raise awareness about attacks on staffing ratios and nurses’ emotional health during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The California Nurses Association will hold a virtual press conference Wednesday to warn that allowing hospitals blanket permission to violate California’s RN-to-patient safe staffing law under the cover of the Covid-19 surge will inevitably lead to more patient, nurse, and other health care worker infections and deaths.

Registered nurses at Sutter Roseville will hold a press conference Tuesday, Dec. 15 to protest the recent waiver on safe staffing standards that has been granted to acute care hospitals. Nurses say they are urging Sutter Roseville to staff for safe patient care, not use the pandemic as an excuse to cut corners.