Registered nurses at Long Beach Medical Center/Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital (LBMC/MCWH) will hold a rally on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019 to draw the public’s attention to patient safety concerns at the hospital, announced the California Nurses Association today.

Nurses say throughout the hospital short staffing is not only eroding patient care, but also leading to a high turnover rate of experienced nurses. In addition, they say many new nurses are being assigned to work in units without the appropriate training which puts patient safety in jeopardy.

Nurses at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center will hold a press conference on Wednesday, Nov. 20 to speak out about serious security concerns and demand that the University of California continue making improvements to comply with the Cal/OSHA Workplace Violence Prevention in Healthcare Standard (S.B. 1299), announced California Nurses Association (CNA).

It was with great sadness that we learned this weekend of Bernard Tyson’s untimely passing. On behalf of our members, including 21,000 registered nurses who work in the Kaiser hospitals and clinics across California, I extend heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. He was a respected CEO who carried himself with stature, and broke new ground in being named the first African American CEO of Kaiser Permanente.