New Report: California Non-Profit Hospitals Save Billions While Providing Little Charity Care
Private, not-for-profit hospitals, which dominate the California hospital landscape, rack up tax exemption benefits of close to $2 billion a year beyond what they return to communities in charity care, according to a new report released today.
IHSP: Institute for Health & Socio-Economic Policy
Aug 15, 2012
Nonprofit hospitals' charity care under scrutiny
Nonprofit hospitals in California are facing new scrutiny over whether they are doing enough for the public to justify their tax-exempt status.
Bay Citizen
Sacramento Hearing, Rally Wednesday: What Do Hospitals Provide in Return for Non-Profit Status?
Do California not-for-profit hospitals return an equitable benefit to the state and local communities for the huge tax privileges they receive for their nonprofit status? Do they provide sufficient levels of charity care? Are they publicly accountable? Are their actions adequately measurable and transparent?
CNA Press Release
Aug 14, 2012
RNs Oppose Prop. 32
Would Erode Voice of Nurses, Further Shift Policy Influence to Corporate Interests. Calling the proposal a “cynical fraud that would silence the voices of nurses and other workers in public policy,†the California Nurses Association today announced it is joining with labor, community, consumer, and good government organizations to oppose Proposition 32 on the state’s November election ballot.
CNA Press Release
Aug 14, 2012
California's Prop. 32 would be Citizens United on steroids
Conservative activists in California are promoting a deceptive ballot proposition that would increase the ability of business groups and billionaires to dominate state elections. The measure, Proposition 32, claims to be an even-handed effort at campaign finance reform – but nothing could be further from the truth. Prop. 32 (or “Stop Special Interest Money Now,†as its big money supporters prefer to call it) would cripple the ability of unions to participate in politics, but have little or no impact on unlimited spending by corporate executives and other wealthy individuals.
The Hill
Nation’s Largest Nurses Organization Backs Raul Grijalva
Calling him one of the “premiere advocates for nurses and working people in the U.S. Congress,†National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses, today announced its endorsement of Rep. Raul Grijalva for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives.
CNA Press Release
Aug 14, 2012
Sacramento Hearing, Rally to Shine Spotlight - Aug. 15th
Do California not-for-profit hospitals return an equitable benefit to the state and local communities for the huge tax privileges they receive for their non-profit status? Do they provide sufficient levels of charity care? Are they publicly accountable? Are their actions adequately measurable and transparent?
CNA Press Release
Aug 10, 2012
Enloe Nurses Cite Gains in Break Relief, Retirement, Compensation in New Contract Agreement
Registered nurses at Enloe Medical Center have approved a new collective bargaining agreement with the Chico hospital that they say will strengthen patient care standards, increase access to their retirement plans, and improve compensation that will help with retention and recruitment of RNs.
CNA Press Release
Aug 8, 2012
Nurses protest at Rideout
About 50 registered nurses, nursing assistants and their families demonstrated Monday with picket signs across the street from Rideout-Memorial Hospital in Marysville.
AppealDemocrat.com
Governor Signs Law to Ban Mandatory Overtime for Nurses
BOSTON, MA - Members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United were at the State House today to witness Governor Deval Patrick’s signing of a new health care cost containment law that includes a ban on the dangerous practice of utilizing mandatory overtime as an alternative to providing safe registered nurse staffing levels in the state’s acute care hospitals.
Massachusetts Nurses Association Press Release
Aug 6, 2012