CNA press releases

USC Keck and Norris Cancer Center nurses to hold car caravan for patient safety and safe staffing

USC registered nurses at Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center will hold a car caravan on Saturday, May 1 to protest years of understaffing and the lack of an adequate staffing plan by administration.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

April 28, 2021

UCLA Santa Monica nurses to hold protest for patient safety

Registered nurses at the University of California Los Angeles, Santa Monica campus, will hold a socially distant protest on Monday, Apr. 26 to call on management to immediately address the unsafe environment and working conditions that put patient safety at risk.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

April 23, 2021

California nurses say that delaying action on establishing guaranteed health care for the state is a mistake, Californians cannot wait

Lawmakers today are choosing to delay for another year action on AB 1400, the bill known as CalCare that would establish a guaranteed, single-payer health system for all California residents, using the excuse that they need to hash out more details and decide how to finance it.

California Nurses Association

April 21, 2021

Barton RNs to hold two-day strike April 16-17

Registered nurses at Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. will hold a two-day strike starting on April 16, 2021 as Barton’s board of directors is refusing to address persistent patient safety issues, including short staffing and deepening nurse recruitment and retention problems.

California Nurses Association

April 12, 2021

Nurses to hold vigil demanding an end to acts of racist violence against Asians

Registered nurses at Providence Little Company of Mary in Torrance will hold a socially distant vigil in solidarity with Asian communities on Friday, April 9 at 6:30 p.m

California Nurses Association

April 8, 2021

RNs at HCA’s Regional Medical Center of San Jose hold action Tuesday: red alert on unsafe staffing

At HCA’s Regional Medical Center of San Jose, RNs will hold a shift change action Tuesday, April 6 to call public attention to a growing concern over inadequate staffing they say leads to dangerous delays in care.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

April 5, 2021

San Joaquin County nurses ratify a new contract with protections to improve patient safety

Registered nurses at San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp, Calif., overwhelmingly ratified a new two-year contract today, winning protections to improve patient safety.

California Nurses Association

April 1, 2021

New law requiring hospitals to maintain a three-month supply of PPE takes effect April 1

Nurses welcome the April 1, 2021 implementation of a new law requiring hospitals to create and maintain a three-month stockpile of N95 respirators, gowns, and other personal protective equipment (PPE).

California Nurses Association

March 31, 2021

HCA’s Good Samaritan San Jose RNs to protest unsafe staffing

Registered nurses at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose will hold an action Thursday, April 1 to warn the public that severe short staffing in women’s and children’s services at the hospital is putting laboring women and newborns in danger.

California Nurses Association

March 30, 2021

Cal/OSHA finds Alta Bates campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center guilty of eight violations, cites Sutter for additional $141,750

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has issued an additional $141,750 in fines to Sutter Health—along with eight new citations—for failing to notify nurses in two units at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Alta Bates Campus in Berkeley, Calif. that they had been exposed to Covid.

California Nurses Association

March 26, 2021