In a positive development for San Francisco patients, nurses, and frontline health care workers, administrators at UC San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) and Sutter Health Network’s California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) Van Ness and Mission Bernal campuses announced they were rescinding their applications for waivers of state-mandated nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
Registered nurses at KPC Global Hospitals will hold informational pickets at each hospital on, Wednesday, Dec. 23 to protest the recent waiver on safe staffing standards that has been granted to acute care hospitals.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at UC San Francisco will hold a press conference on Wednesday, Dec. 23 to protest its use of the state waiver to circumvent RN-to-patient safe staffing standards.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, Calif., will hold a shift change action on Wednesday, Dec. 23 to object to the recent waivers on safe staffing standards that acute-care hospitals are pursuing.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at Emanate Health in Covina, Calif., will hold a press conference on Friday, Dec. 18 to protest the recent waiver on safe staffing standards that has been granted to acute care hospitals.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
The California Nurses Association will hold a virtual press conference Wednesday to warn that allowing hospitals blanket permission to violate California’s RN-to-patient safe staffing law under the cover of the Covid-19 surge will inevitably lead to more patient, nurse, and other health care worker infections and deaths.
Registered nurses at Sutter Roseville will hold a press conference Tuesday, Dec. 15 to protest the recent waiver on safe staffing standards that has been granted to acute care hospitals. Nurses say they are urging Sutter Roseville to staff for safe patient care, not use the pandemic as an excuse to cut corners.
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses United today criticized the California hospital industry for years of hospital closures and other cuts that have led to the current crises in capacity and staffing. The union also criticized the industry for making new demands for sweeping blanket waivers to roll back years of workplace public safety rules that they warn would worsen the severity of the pandemic.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Nurses at University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) will hold a rally on Tuesday, Nov. 10 to demand safe staffing throughout the health system and to alert the public to their patient safety concerns during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Registered nurses at Doctors-Regional Corpus Christi Medical Center will gather outside the hospital Thursday to alert the public to their concerns over an erosion of staffing standards that they warn is a significant risk to patient safety.
