California staffing ratios press releases

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UC San Diego Nurses

UC San Diego Nurses demand safe staffing to save lives

Registered nurses at UCSD will hold a press conference on Wednesday, Jan. 27 to call on the University of California (UC) to staff for safe patient care and stop elective surgeries.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
January 26, 2021

Watsonville Community Hospital Nurses

Watsonville Community Hospital Nurses hold press conference to demand hospital rescind its dangerous waiver on safe staffing

Watsonville Community Hospital (WCH) nurses will protest the profit-driven waiver of California’s safe nurse-to-patient staffing law (or “ratios”) at a Wednesday press conference.

California Nurses Association
January 26, 2021

UCI Nurses hold shift change action in support of safe staffing

University of California nurses: Hospital industry attack on safe staffing puts lives of patients, nurses, workers at risk

Registered nurses at UCLA and UCI will hold a press conference on Wednesday, Jan. 13 to protest the hospitals' use of state waivers to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
January 11, 2021

Car caravan

Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital nurses say: Hospital industry attack on safe staffing puts lives of patients, nurses, workers at risk

Registered nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital will hold a car caravan on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 to protest their employer’s use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards. Nurses are urging Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital to staff for safe patient care, and not use the pandemic as an excuse to put patients at serious risk.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
January 7, 2021

Methodist Hospital of Southern California

Arcadia nurses: Hospital industry attack on safe staffing puts lives of patients, nurses, and workers at risk

Registered nurses at Methodist Hospital of Southern California will hold a socially distant, silent event on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2020 to protest its use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
December 31, 2020

Nurses hold signs calling for safe staffing

Nurses: CPMC attack on safe staffing puts lives of patients, nurses, workers at risk

Registered nurses at Sutter California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) will hold a press conference at noon on Wednesday Dec. 30 to protest the hospital’s use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
December 29, 2020

Palomar Health healthcare workers inside hospital wear stickers calling for safe staffing ratios

Nurses and Health Care Workers Speak Out Against Palomar Health’s Waiver of Safe Staffing Standards

Registered nurses and caregivers will hold a car caravan Tuesday, Dec. 29 declaring their opposition to the healthcare district’s application for a blanket waiver of state-mandated safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.

Caregiver and Healthcare Employees Union/California Nurses Association
December 28, 2020

UCSF nurses hold sign "Safe Staffing Saves Lives"

UC San Francisco Medical Center and California Pacific Medical Center cancel applications for waivers of safe staffing standards amid fierce challenges by union RNs

In a positive development for San Francisco patients, nurses, and frontline health care workers, administrators at UC San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) and Sutter Health Network’s California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) Van Ness and Mission Bernal campuses announced they were rescinding their applications for waivers of state-mandated nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.

California Nurses Association
December 23, 2020

Nurse hold signs calling for safe staffing

Orange County nurses: Hospital industry attack on safe staffing puts lives of patients, nurses, workers at risk

Registered nurses at KPC Global Hospitals will hold informational pickets at each hospital on, Wednesday, Dec. 23 to protest the recent waiver on safe staffing standards that has been granted to acute care hospitals.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
December 22, 2020

Nurse holds signs "Safe Staffing Saves Lives"

Doctors Modesto nurses protest state waiver of safe staffing standards

Registered nurses at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, Calif., will hold a shift change action on Wednesday, Dec. 23 to object to the recent waivers on safe staffing standards that acute-care hospitals are pursuing.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
December 22, 2020