National Nurses United today announced that it has received a major donation from Kappler Incorporated, an Alabama-based garment manufacturer, of 1,000 Hazmat special protective suits for embattled nurses, doctors, and other health workers heroically fighting to stem the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Registered nurses will hold two vigils Thursday to commemorate the life and memory of Jenevieve Dagatan on the first anniversary of her birth, five months after the infant died in April after being discharged following an initial visit to the emergency room at Kaiser Permanente’s Hayward hospital which had several months earlier closed its children’s services unit.

A delegation of St. Joseph Hospital of Orange registered nurses, local religious leaders, and community supporters will deliver a petition to CEO Steve Moreau today at 11:00 a.m., calling for the restoration of long standing employee benefits, including disability and retiree healthcare plans, that were recently cut.

Registered nurses at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside will hold a press conference on Monday to voice alarm over operations of the hospital's Emergency Department and call for immediate changes to the department's management.

The California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) called on Community Health Systems (CHS), the giant for-profit healthcare corporation based in Franklin, Tennessee that operates Fallbrook Hospital, to reinstate labor and delivery services, which were hastily suspended with little notice on September 3, 2014.