Nurses from University Medical Center New Orleans launching new website documenting how LCMC is failing their city

Registered nurses from University Medical Center New Orleans (UMCNO) in Louisiana will be joined by community allies as they hold a rally and press conference at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, at Charity Hospital to denounce how UMCNO’s owner, LCMC Health, has betrayed the spirit of Charity Hospital and continues to fail the patients and people of New Orleans.

Nurses detail LCMC's faults in a new website launching Monday. Nurses at UMCNO are represented by National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU), the country’s largest nurses union.

“We are the spirit of Charity — the nurses of New Orleans, our patients, and the community that supports us,” said Ory Mire, RN in case management at UMCNO. “Many of us worked there, even learned to be nurses there. A lot of us were born there! LCMC wants to claim they represent the spirit of Charity, but if that were true, they’d be working with us, the people who made Charity what it was and who make UMC what it is today.”

Who: New Orleans nurses and community allies
What: Rally and press conference
When: Monday, Aug. 18, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Charity Hospital, 1510 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, La., 

“We are proud to be launching a new website that explores how LCMC has betrayed the spirit of Charity,” said Shonda Franklin, RN in the float pool at UMCNO. “This is the reality nurses and our patients are dealing with every day at UMC, and it’s time the public saw the full picture.”

The public can visit the nurses’ new website on Charity betrayed when it’s live on Monday. NNOC/NNU represents more than 600 registered nurses at UMCNO.

National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States with more than 225,000 members nationwide. NNU affiliates include California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, DC Nurses Association, Michigan Nurses Association, Minnesota Nurses Association, and New York State Nurses Association.