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Community at Red Alert Tour stop with red alert bus in background

Nurses to hold ‘RED ALERT’ rally and community event to save Minneapolis hospital ahead of critical May 18 deadline

Registered nurses members of Minnesota Nurses Association and National Nurses United, will gather in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Thursday, April 30 for a rally and community event to press lawmakers for long-term, sustainable financial solutions before the legislative session ends to keep Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), a vital Level I trauma center, open.

National Nurses United
April 27, 2026

News

Today I Walked Into My Last Shift at United

Today I walked into my last shift at United Hospital indefinitely. Monday at 0700 my colleagues will walk out and onto the sidewalk, facing their patient’s windows, to begin an open-ended strike.

Kelsey Swenson, Facebook
September 2, 2016

Blog

Nurses at the front lines of an economics debate? You bet your health!

MINN--From Madison to Wall Street, from St. Paul to Washington D.C., people are seeing nurses dressed in red scrubs, holding not a stethoscope but a megaphone. We are carrying signs. We are marching en masse. And we are raising our voices. This may seem unusual behavior for our profession, but in truth, our history is deeply rooted in social advocacy, as well as the bedside advocacy you’ve come to trust. We’re doing more because we must.

MNA Blog

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NNU Endorsements 2016

See a list of legislative endorsements.