Alameda, CA – Alameda Health System (AHS) CNA nurses along with Bay Area human rights activists, teachers, students, and families will mobilize to uplift health care workers’ calls against inadequate preparedness and personal protective equipment (PPE) and weakened patient care standards during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Nurses, nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, physicians, among others, are critical members of health teams putting their wellness on the line as well as the health of their loved ones. These unethical working conditions and the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic are the result of federal inaction when the first cases were identified; decades of divestment from public health; and AHS’s failure to budget for the patients and community before CEO salaries. As long as healthcare is a commodity tied to employment status, our communities and healthcare workers are not safe.

This mobilization is an act of solidarity and a show of strength as communities rise up alongside nurses and other healthcare workers as the public health and harm risks escalate for frontline healthcare workers during this pandemic in the Bay Area, around the nation, and across the world.

Nurses at AHS are calling on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to show leadership and immediately oversee this public health system in order to protect the community during this time of crisis.

WHO: Registered nurses and members of California Nurses Association, GABRIELA Oakland, Migrante NorCal, and AnakBayan East Bay 

WHAT: Solidarity action to lift demands of health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic 

WHERE: Alameda Hospital, 2070 Clinton Ave, Alameda, CA 94501 
(Cross street, Willow. Gather in front of Main Hospital entrance)

WHEN: Tuesday, April 7, 3:30 p.m.

A nurse at the rally will be available to livestream the action or available for a Facetime interview. Natalia dos Santos, (650) 669-4941.

If you are interested in sending a camera crew to the press conference or in learning more about the situation at Alameda Health System, registered nurses will be available for the press.