Press releases

California's Leading Reform Organizations to Chair California Fair Elections Campaign

SACRAMENTO, CA -- The California Fair Elections campaign today announced that the League of Women Voters of California, the California Clean Money Action Fund, California Common Cause, and the California Nurses Association will co-chair the campaign to pass the California Fair Elections Act on the June 8, 2010 ballot. Authored by Loni Hancock and signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the ballot measure would establish a voluntary pilot public financing program for the 2014 and 2018 Secretary of State races.

Press Release

November 22, 2010

Ohio Nurses Union Debunks New State Health Department Hospital Website

Limited Information Limits Effectiveness of Hospital Comparisons The Ohio affiliate of National Nurses United, the "super-union" for registered nurses, today welcomes Ohio Hospital Compare, the new website of the Ohio Department of Health, aimed at helping consumers choose a hospital by comparing quality measures—but the union cautions patients that the quality of the information is limited, thereby limiting the site’s impact.

Press Release

November 19, 2010

Kaiser, Sutter Santa Rosa RNs Help Evacuate Wildfire Patients, While Also Facing Personal Losses

As a series of wildfires raged in Napa and Sonoma counties Monday, registered nurses at Kaiser Santa Rosa and Sutter Santa Rosa found themselves in the position of both first responder, helping to evacuate patients, and disaster victim, with 15 RNs have also lost their homes—as RNs at surrounding hospitals, and volunteer nurses from as far away as San Jose, stepped up to help provide care.

California Nurses Association