Nurses Warn: Wall Street Targeting Hospitals for Profits
New York City - Hundreds of nurses and their supporters from across the U.S. will converge outside the offices of Cerberus Capital Management, 299 Park Avenue, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, at 12:30 p.m., to protest the practices of the multi-billion dollar private equity firm’s health care unit, Steward Health Care System.
Press Release
Dec 15, 2011
New study: Jobs crisis promotes rationing of care
A new NPR/Kaiser Family Foundation survey released today documented again the direct link between the economic crisis – you know the one Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman now says we ought to start calling a Depression – and families undermining their health.
National Nurses Movement
Nurses Top Gallup Poll on Honesty, Ethics – Again
It’s time to put nurses in the Hall of Fame. For the 12th time in 13 years, nurses have earned top honors in the annual Gallup poll on ethics and honesty.
Press Release
Dec 12, 2011
Public ranks nurses top in honesty, ethics - again
This year's update, from a Nov. 28-Dec. 1 Gallup poll, finds Americans rating the honesty and ethical standards of 3 medical professions -- nurses, pharmacists, and doctors -- the highest of the 21 professions tested. At the other end of the spectrum, Americans give the least positive honesty and ethics ratings to members of Congress, lobbyists, car salespeople, and telemarketers.
Gallup.com
HCA RNs Win Key Gains in Patient Care, RN Standards in First Contract at Las Vegas Hospital
Registered nurses at a Las Vegas hospital that is part of the nation’s largest hospital chain, Nashville-based HCA, have achieved their first collective bargaining contract with important improvements in patient care protections and enhanced professional and economic standards that will help keep experienced RNs at the bedside, National Nurses United announced today.
NNOC/NNU Press Release
Dec 9, 2011
CPMC spends far less on poor, S.F. report says
California Pacific Medical Center, including its St. Luke's campus, is San Francisco's most profitable hospital, yet it spends proportionately far less on care for poor residents than other private nonprofit hospitals in the city, according to a new report.
San Francisco Chronical
6,000 California RNs Set One-Day Strike December 22
Nurses are poised to hold a one-day strike at California’s second largest private hospital, and one of its most profitable corporate hospital chain December 22.
CNA Press Release
Dec 9, 2011
Texas Tragedy Reminder of a Job for Robin Hood
In a year of ghastly stories from the economic implosions on Main Street, this one might have been the worst. By: NNU Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro
NNU Blog
Government gets blamed for widening wealth gap
The state and federal governments are largely responsible for the widening gap between the rich and poor in the United States and should institute policy changes - including reforms to the tax code and more investment in education - to help reverse this 30-year trend, economists and researchers told state lawmakers Wednesday.
San Francisco Chronical
HCA RNs Win Key Gains in Patient Care, RN Standards in First Contract at Las Vegas Hospital
Registered nurses at a Las Vegas hospital that is part of the nation’s largest hospital chain, Nashville-based HCA, have achieved their first collective bargaining contract with important improvements in patient care protections and enhanced professional and economic standards that will help keep experienced RNs at the bedside, National Nurses United announced today.
NNU Press Release
Dec 8, 2011