Press releases

Nurses: Patient, RN and worker safety cuts a price for HCA’s huge profits amid pandemic

HCA’s announcement of $3.75 billion in profits for 2020, a 7.1 percent jump over 2019, is a clear demonstration of the financial consequences of a year of short staffing and other cuts affecting patient and worker safety despite a once-in-a-century pandemic.

National Nurses United

February 2, 2021

California nurses declare victory as state tells hospitals all waivers of safe staffing standards expire by Feb. 8

Today, more than 100,000 RN members of the California Nurses Association declared victory when the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced it will not approve for hospitals any new expedited waivers of the state’s landmark safe staffing ratios and all existing waivers end by Feb. 8.

California Nurses Association

February 1, 2021

RNs, EMS leader to update campaign to stop closure of Olympia Medical Center

Registered nurses from Olympia Medical Center and UCLA, a Los Angeles Emergency Medical Services leader, and other invited prominent speakers will hold a virtual press conference on Wednesday to update the campaign to stop the calamitous closure of Olympia amidst a still-raging pandemic.

California Nurses Association

February 1, 2021

Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Commission Calls for Six-Month Delay in Olympia Medical Center Closure

“Given that we are in a historic public health emergency,” the Los Angeles County Emergency Services Commission (EMS) Wednesday recommended the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors call for a six-month delay in the closure of Olympia Medical Center.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

January 27, 2021

Los Angeles County public hearing Wednesday—Emergency Services Commission Amid pandemic, nurses to urge LA County to press Alecto, UCLA to keep Olympia Medical Center open

At a public hearing by the Los Angeles County Emergency Services Commission Wednesday morning, registered nurses will call on Los Angeles County officials to step up pressure on Alecto Health Services and UCLA Health to keep Olympia Medical Center open at least for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

January 26, 2021

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 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

Nurses say lifting CA stay home orders puts patients, nurses, health care workers at risk

The California Nurses Association condemned the news this morning that the state’s mandatory stay at home order would be lifted, with counties moving back into the color-coded, tiered reopening system.

California Nurses Association

January 25, 2021

Thousands of nurses and health care workers hold events nationwide Jan. 27 to demand hospital employers put patients first during Covid and beyond

Thousands of registered nurse and health care worker members of National Nurses United (NNU), the country’s largest union and professional association of RNs, will be holding hundreds of socially distanced events in more than 19 states and the District of Columbia on Jan. 27 to demand that their hospital employers put patients first above profit motives in how patient care is delivered.

National Nurses United

January 25, 2021

Nurses Applaud Biden’s National Strategy for the Covid-19 Response

National Nurses United applauded and enthusiastically welcomed President Biden’s new National Strategy for the Covid-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness, released on January 21; the executive orders and actions related to Covid-19 that the president signed on his first three days in office; and his stimulus plan, the American Rescue Plan, released on January 14.

National Nurses United

January 22, 2021