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Kansas City nurses picket for safer staffing

Kansas City nurses protest planned service shut downs at Research Medical Center

Nurses at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, are speaking out against the planned end of their hospital’s labor and delivery, neonatal intensive, and obstetrics emergency care services. Recently announced by HCA, nurses say these service shutdowns will leave patients with fewer options for essential health care for new parents and babies.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
July 11, 2025

News

A nurse using a wireless electronic tablet

Nurses union pressures candidates to spurn donations from coalition that opposes 'Medicare for All'

A nurses union that's long been a major booster of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and his signature plan for single-payer health care urged political candidates Wednesday night to reject donations from a powerful coalition of insurance and pharmaceutical companies and hospitals that oppose Medicare For All.

Alice Miranda Ollstein, Politico
February 12, 2020

Blog

Mission Hospital, Asheville

Caring after Helene: dispatches from Asheville

“I feel like I am in the middle of living a nightmare. It is indescribable. Everything you see on the news, it is worse in person.”

National Nurses United
October 7, 2024