Safe staffing ratios press releases

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Enloe Medical Center RNs hold sign "Patients First in the Community"

Chico nurses to hold informational picket for patient safety

Registered nurses at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif., will hold an informational picket on May 14 as management refuses to address issues of safe staffing, infection control protocols for safe patient care during the pandemic, or hospital preparedness for natural disasters.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
May 12, 2021

Back of car with "Safe Staffing Saves Lives" written on window

Health care workers at Methodist Hospital of Southern California to hold car caravan for patient safety

Health care workers at Methodist Hospital of Southern California, in Arcadia, Calif. will hold a car caravan on Saturday, May 8 to highlight their patient safety concerns, including short staffing and the demand to end discriminatory pay practices.

Caregivers & Healthcare Employees Union
May 5, 2021

Nurses outside Capitol building

Registered Nurses Honor National Nurses Week with Lobby Days For Federal Legislation to Protect Patients and Nurses

Hundreds of registered nurses from across the country will meet virtually with federal lawmakers on May 4-10 to urge them to step up measures to improve protections for hospital patients and nurses and other health care workers across the country.

National Nurses United
May 3, 2021

USC Keck and Norris Cancer Center nurses

USC Keck and Norris Cancer Center nurses to hold car caravan for patient safety and safe staffing

USC registered nurses at Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center will hold a car caravan on Saturday, May 1 to protest years of understaffing and the lack of an adequate staffing plan by administration.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
April 28, 2021

Speaker and nurses in front of Regional Medical Center building

RNs at HCA’s Regional Medical Center of San Jose hold action Tuesday: red alert on unsafe staffing

At HCA’s Regional Medical Center of San Jose, RNs will hold a shift change action Tuesday, April 6 to call public attention to a growing concern over inadequate staffing they say leads to dangerous delays in care.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
April 5, 2021

Good Samaritan RNs hold signs calling for safe staffing

HCA’s Good Samaritan San Jose RNs to protest unsafe staffing

Registered nurses at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose will hold an action Thursday, April 1 to warn the public that severe short staffing in women’s and children’s services at the hospital is putting laboring women and newborns in danger.

California Nurses Association
March 30, 2021

Nurses holding signs on sidewalk: "Save Lives, Safe Staffing NOW"

Oak Hill RNs to Rally Friday to Voice Alarm About Unsafe Staffing Issues

Registered nurses at HCA’s Oak Hill Hospital will rally on Friday, March 19, outside the Brooksville, Fla., facility to call public attention to short-staffing levels that they warn puts patients at risk, especially in the hospital’s emergency room and in intensive care units.

National Nurses United
March 18, 2021

AVH hosptial nurses circulating petition

Antelope Valley nurses to speak out at board of directors meeting and deliver petition of ‘no confidence’ in hospital CEO Edward Mirzabegian

Antelope Valley Hospital registered nurses will speak out at tomorrow’s Antelope Valley Healthcare District Board of Directors’ meeting and deliver a petition of “no confidence” in AVH CEO Edward Mirzabegian. Nurses are calling on the board of directors to hold the hospital administration accountable for staffing and safe patient care amid ongoing contract negotiations.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
February 23, 2021

Watsonville Community Hospital Nurses

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

UCI Nurses hold shift change action in support of safe staffing

University of California nurses: Hospital industry attack on safe staffing puts lives of patients, nurses, workers at risk

Registered nurses at UCLA and UCI will hold a press conference on Wednesday, Jan. 13 to protest the hospitals' use of state waivers to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
January 11, 2021