Desert Regional RNs demand District Board use all available means to pressure Tenet to release financial information

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Registered nurses at Desert Regional Medical Center are calling on the Desert Healthcare District Board to use all available means to pressure Tenet Healthcare to release financial information that would allow the board to solicit offers from other potential operators who could take over management of the hospital.
California Nurses Association
Apr 29, 2024

Machias nurses and technicians to hold historic two-day strike

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Registered nurses and technicians at Down East Community Hospital in Machias, Maine, will begin their two-day strike on Tuesday, April 30, to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ and techs’ concerns about recruitment, retention, and safe staffing.
Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
Apr 28, 2024

Nurses protest HCA crushing hospitals at Frist Family Gala in Nashville

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Nearly 100 union nurses from across the U.S. protested outside the April 27 Frist Family Gala at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tenn., a black-tie event named for the family that founded and is a major shareholder in HCA, the largest for-profit health care company in the country.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Apr 27, 2024

Ascension nurses call for urgent changes after Catholic chain named in “Dirty Dozen” employer list

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Ascension nurses continue to call for urgent changes at the sprawling hospital chain after the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health named Ascension to its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of employers who put workers and communities at risk due to unsafe practices.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Apr 25, 2024

Nurse volunteers deployed to Guatemala for free health clinics

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A team of volunteer registered nurses returned today from Guatemala, where they provided free medical care in rural, severely underserved areas as part of Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a disaster-relief project of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Foundation.
RN Response Network
Apr 24, 2024

Update: NNU invited to join CDC’s HICPAC workgroup on infection prevention

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In May 2024, CDC invited NNU’s lead industrial hygienist to join the workgroup and NYSNA’s lead health and safety representative to join HICPAC — a major victory for frontline nurses, other health care workers, and patients!

New workgroup meeting summaries were added for July 8, 2024 – September 9, 2024.