Registered nurses at HCA-owned Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., will hold a rally on June 19 to protest HCA’s failure to seriously address nurses’ concerns in contract negotiations.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, will hold a rally to highlight their contract campaign priorities to improve patient care and working conditions. Nurses will be joined by Attorney General Josh Stein who since 2018 has demanded that HCA meet its obligation to provide quality, affordable care to western North Carolina.
Nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, will hold a rally as they begin negotiations on a new union contract with HCA, the facility’s owner and largest health system in the United States.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
At this field hearing of the Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, Hannah Drummond, RN, was featured among several witnesses speaking to the ways corporate greed endangers patient care and health care workers.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at the Durham VA Medical Center in Durham, N.C., will hold a protest on Thursday, March 7, to demand that the VA address their concerns about patient safety, staff moral distress, and lack of flexible work schedules to retain nurses at their facility.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Hannah Drummond, a registered nurse at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., appeared at a U.S. Senate subcommittee field hearing hosted by Sen. Ed Markey in Boston, Mass., on April 3. Drummond is the chief nurse representative at Mission Hospital.
When Mission Hospital nurses in Asheville, N.C. voted to join National Nurses Organizing Committee in September 2020, Kerri Wilson, an RN in the telemetry unit, knew she wanted to be part of the professional practice committee (PPC).
In December, Mission RNs applauded North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein for filing a lawsuit against HCA for violating the asset purchase agreement it made when it acquired Mission Health in 2019. The lawsuit alleges that HCA is not providing the quality, consistent emergency and cancer care it committed to deliver.
For the registered nurses at Mission Hospital in North Carolina, “Organize the South” is more than just a motto. It’s exactly what they’ve been doing. And the North Carolina labor movement is thanking them for it.
In the first private sector hospital union election win in North Carolina — the largest at any non-union hospital in the South since 1975 — RNs at Mission Hospital voted by a stunning 70 percent to join the nation’s largest RN union to secure a powerful voice for improved care and workplace safety.
