HCFA Comments
Healthy California for All Commission Environmental Analysis: Comments by Commissioner Comsti
The Healthy California for All Commission was charged, in part, with submitting a report to the Governor and the Legislature analyzing California’s existing health care system, options for preparing for transition to a single-payer health care financing system, and options for coverage expansion. Commissioner Carmen Comsti, Regulatory Policy Specialist with the California Nurses Association, submitted these written comments on the draft report prepared by consulting team members.
PIH Health-Good Samaritan Hospital nurses hold action to demand protections when treating COVID-19 patients
Registered nurses at PIH Health-Good Samaritan Hospital will hold an action and media availability during their shift change on Wednesday, July 29, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU), the nation’s largest and fastest-growing nurses union representing more than 155,000 registered nurses across the country.
California Nurses Association
Jul 28, 2020
UCLA Nurses Rally To Demand Safe Staffing and Appropriate Protections to Protect Nurses and Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic
To protest the recent staffing cuts and inadequate access to COVID-19 related protections for frontline health care workers during this COVID-19 pandemic, registered nurses at UCLA Westwood Medical Center are holding a rally and media availability during their lunch break on July, 29. Nurses will be available to describe recent staffing cuts which put patients and nurses at risk, and the lack of access to COVID-19 testing and safe personal protective equipment.
California Nurses Association
Jul 28, 2020
National nurse survey reveals devastating impact of reopening too soon
As many states have moved to reopen, a new groundbreaking survey of more than 21,200 nurses reveals that health care workplace conditions remain dangerous and nurses are afraid of infecting their families with COVID-19, announced National Nurses United (NNU) today. The safety of nurses is essential to a safe reopening.
National Nurses United
Jul 28, 2020
National Nurses United on Senate Republicans’ stimulus proposal: 'Senate Republicans have abandoned nurses and patients'
Senate Republicans today released a fourth COVID-19 stimulus package proposal that utterly fails to address the urgent needs of working people across the country, who are in desperate want of economic support and a comprehensive pandemic response, as well as the needs of nurses and health care workers on the front lines of COVID-19.
National Nurses United
Jul 27, 2020
National Nurses United on Trump’s Dispatch of Federal Troops: Send Aid Instead for Confronting Virus, Economic Crisis
National Nurses United joins with labor and community activists across Chicago to condemn the Trump Administration decision to dispatch militarized federal troops to Chicago, instead of the critical support Chicago, like other American cities, needs in the face of an exploding pandemic and worsening economic crisis.
National Nurses United
Jul 25, 2020
Global Nurses United Press Clips
See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.
Global Nurses United
Lives Are on the line in November.
The COVID-19 deaths in America were not inevitable. They are the result of President Trump and his administration abandoning nurses, other health care and frontline workers, and the public at large.
Bonnie Castillo, Executive Director of National Nurses United
National Nurses Statement on Trump’s Threat to Send Federal Troops to More Major U.S. Cities
With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to surge and a worsening economic crisis, the registered nurses of National Nurses United today condemned President Trump’s threat to dispatch federal troops to more major U.S. cities to arrest and assault protesters.
National Nurses United
Jul 22, 2020
UC Davis Medical Center Perioperative Nurses To Rally For Safe Patient Care, Safe Staffing
To protect patient safety standards and demand safe staffing for nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, perioperative nurses at UC Davis Medical Center (UCDMC), along with fellow UC Davis nurses, will hold a rally and action on Thursday, July 23.
California Nurses Association
Jul 22, 2020