Safe staffing ratios press releases

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UChicago nurses hold up signs in support of safe staffing.

UChicago nurses to hold one-day strike for safe staffing

Nurses at UChicago Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, will hold a one-day strike on March 14 to protest the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ demand to improve safe staffing at their facility.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
March 4, 2024

UCSF nurses hold signs in support of safe staffing.

UCSF Mission Bay nurses rally to demand immediate action on safe staffing for patients

On February 27, nurses from University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Health Mission Bay will hold a rally to shed light on worsening conditions inside the medical center that the university has continuously refused to address.

California Nurses Association
February 26, 2024

NNU logo over image of nurses taking action.

UChicago nurses schedule strike vote due to unresolved patient safety concerns

Registered nurses at UChicago Medicine will hold a strike vote on Tuesday, February 20, 2024, which would authorize the bargaining team to call a strike if management does not address staffing concerns which lead to patient safety issues.

National Nurses United
February 16, 2024

Nurse holding up sign that reads "We are here for our patients."

Oroville Hospital nurses to hold informational picket to protest short-staffing, erosion of patient care standards, and deteriorating working conditions

Registered nurses at Oroville Hospital in Oroville, California, will hold an informational picket on Thursday, February 15, to protest chronic short-staffing conditions that jeopardize patient care and lead to high turnover and the loss of experienced nurses.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
February 14, 2024

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Antelope Valley nurses to hold rally for patient safety

Registered nurses at Antelope Valley Medical Center in Lancaster, Calif., will hold a rally on Thursday, Jan. 4 to highlight their patient safety concerns, including chronic short-staffing, management’s failure to meet California’s mandatory minimum RN-to-patient ratios, and retaliation against RNs advocating for safe patient care.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
January 3, 2024

Two nurses standing with North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein holding signs "Staff Up for Safe Patient Care"

Mission Hospital nurses applaud Attorney General Josh Stein for lawsuit against HCA

Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., applaud North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein for filing a lawsuit today against HCA for violating the asset purchase agreement it made when it acquired Mission Health in 2019.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
December 14, 2023

Group of five nurses outside Seton Medical Center, holding signs "Seton RNs Demand Safe Staffing"

Daly City nurses to hold informational picket against drastic health care cuts at AHMC Seton

Seton Medical Center (Seton) nurses in Daly City, Calif. will hold an informational picket on Dec. 12, 2023 to protest their employer’s drastic health care cuts, among other actions, that could exacerbate the hospital’s persistent recruitment and retention issues.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
December 10, 2023

NNU and NYSNA President Nancy Hagans in front of microphone

NNU and NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN, testifies in support of federal ratios legislation at Senate field hearing

National Nurses United and New York State Nurses Association President Nancy Hagans, RN, testified today at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in support of federal legislation supporting mandatory minimum nurse to patient ratios.

National Nurses United
October 27, 2023

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NNU President Nancy Hagans, RN, to testify in support of federal ratios legislation at Senate field hearing

NNU and New York State Nurses Association President Nancy Hagans, RN, will testify at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Friday, Oct. 27 at 9 a.m. ET in support of federal legislation supporting mandatory minimum registered nurse-to-patient ratios.

National Nurses United/New York State Nurses Association
October 26, 2023

Nurse holding sign that reads "Safe staffing Saves Lives"

Redding nurses and health care workers to protest Shasta Regional Medical Center’s safe staffing law violations

Registered nurses and health care workers at Prime Healthcare’s Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in Redding, Calif., will picket on Tuesday, Oct. 24, to protest management’s proposed staffing scheme because it violates California’s safe staffing law and jeopardizes patient care.

California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
October 20, 2023