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San Jose nurses to rally for patient safety

Registered nurses at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, Calif., will hold a rally on Monday, March 24, at 4 p.m. to highlight their patient safety concerns, including short-staffing, unsafe conditions for patients, lack of support staff, and the lack of a dedicated management team in the emergency room.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
March 20, 2025

News

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California is rolling back protections for frontline workers. This is wrong and dangerous

As California struggles with record infections, hospitalizations and deaths, it’s hard to imagine that hospital industry executives, with the cooperation of state regulators, would come up with a plan to make conditions worse. Sadly, they have.

Zenei Cortez
December 28, 2020

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Californians need CalCare, not Sacramento stall tactics

Nurses know that passing legislation to create CalCare is of life-and-death urgency and the most critical step towards guaranteeing health care for all Californians. That’s why we don’t support the approach proposed in SB 770, which would put the bureaucratic cart before the health care horse.

Sandy Reding, RN
April 11, 2023

Legislation

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NNU Endorsements 2016

See a list of legislative endorsements.