Union health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in Redding, Calif. will hold an informational picket on Oct. 28 to demand safe patient staffing.

National Nurses United (NNU) today sharply criticized what nurses called “desperate” statements by President Trump and his Chief of Staff Mark Meadows this weekend intended to deflect and dismiss public outrage of the mounting toll of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Registered nurses, labor leaders, and community activists are calling on all concerned citizens to join the fight to defend public health for Black and Brown Chicagoans during an emergency virtual town hall meeting, Monday, Oct. 26

Registered nurses and other health care workers at the Atlanta VA Medical Center (VAMC) will hold a rally on Saturday, Oct. 24 to alert the public to the abrupt closure of the Atlanta Community Living Center (CLC), or VA nursing home, the displacement of the patient residents, and concerns about the lack of appropriate training for nurses moved to provide care outside of their expertise.

Registered nurses at Doctors-Regional Corpus Christi Medical Center will gather outside the hospital Thursday to alert the public to their concerns over an erosion of staffing standards that they warn is a significant risk to patient safety.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors today voted overwhelmingly to accept the resignation of the Alameda Health System’s Board of Trustees after registered nurses demanded the dissolution of the board during a five-day strike.

Union health care workers at Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in Redding, Calif. will hold a rally this Wednesday to announce the delivery of a petition to management demanding safe staffing.

Registered nurses at San Leandro Hospital and Alameda Hospital say they are encouraged that the Alameda Board of Supervisors (BOS) has taken the first steps to address the dysfunction and chaos which jeopardizes the safety of nurses and patients at Alameda Health System hospitals.

In the midst of a deadly pandemic, Cook County is preparing to release a budget which would close two community health clinics, South Shore Clinic and Woodlawn Clinic, and downgrade critically needed medical services, including the closure of the emergency room at Provident Hospital, the country’s first Black-owned hospital.

Registered nurses at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose will hold a public action Wednesday, Oct. 14, to demand a change in management of the Women’s Services program due to dangerous workplace conditions that jeopardize patient safety.