Safe staffing ratios press releases

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

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

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 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

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

Carondelet St. Mary’s and St. Joseph’s nurses to hold car procession to urge hospitals to provide optimal staffing

NNOC/NNU-represented registered nurses will hold a car procession honk-a-thon on Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 8:15 a.m., to urge their hospitals to provide optimal staffing and alert the community of the current public health crisis in Arizona.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

January 11, 2021

Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital nurses say: Hospital industry attack on safe staffing puts lives of patients, nurses, workers at risk

Registered nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital will hold a car caravan on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 to protest their employer’s use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards. Nurses are urging Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital to staff for safe patient care, and not use the pandemic as an excuse to put patients at serious risk.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

January 7, 2021

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

Registered nurses at Methodist Hospital of Southern California will hold a socially distant, silent event on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2020 to protest its use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

December 31, 2020

Nurses: CPMC attack on safe staffing puts lives of patients, nurses, workers at risk

Registered nurses at Sutter California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) will hold a press conference at noon on Wednesday Dec. 30 to protest the hospital’s use of a state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

December 29, 2020

Nurses and Health Care Workers Speak Out Against Palomar Health’s Waiver of Safe Staffing Standards

Registered nurses and caregivers will hold a car caravan Tuesday, Dec. 29 declaring their opposition to the healthcare district’s application for a blanket waiver of state-mandated safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.

Caregiver and Healthcare Employees Union/California Nurses Association

December 28, 2020