Safe staffing ratios press releases

Watsonville Community Hospital nurses to hold informational picket Friday, Oct. 22, to protest Prospect Medical Holdings’ dangerous short-staffing, erosion of patient care standards, deteriorating working conditions

Nurses also say they are facing reprisals for speaking out, and that nurses with vital experience are making the hard choice to leave their community hospital due to the unsafe conditions.

California Nurses Association

October 20, 2021

Mission nurses to hold socially distanced action to demand safe staffing for safe patient care

Registered nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. will hold a socially distanced action to demand the hospital address chronic short-staffing issues that nurses say put patients and RNs at risk.

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United

October 20, 2021

Central Coast nurses to hold press conference at Sierra Vista Hospital to advocate for safe staffing

Central Coast registered nurses will gather on Thursday, Oct. 7 to express their outrage and respond publicly to a recent New Times-SLO article that quoted Rep. Jordan Cunningham (R-San Luis Obispo) advocating for hospitals to be given waivers on California’s landmark safe nurse-to-patient staffing law (or “ratios”)—claiming that assigning nurses far too many patients to safely care for at once, during the deadly Delta surge, is good for hospitals.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 6, 2021

Sutter Solano Nurses to Hold Candlelight Vigil to Demand Safe Working Environment for Patients and Staff

Nurses say chronic short staffing and a lack of resources has contributed to moral injury on the job while Sutter Health continues to turn a profit.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 5, 2021

Sutter Roseville nurses to hold candlelight vigil at shift change to demand safe staffing

Nurses say chronic short staffing and a lack of resources has contributed to moral injury on the job while Sutter Health continues to turn a profit.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 5, 2021

Doctors Medical RNs picket Oct. 5 to protest unsafe staffing

RNs demand that the medical center step up its efforts to recruit and retain registered nurses.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 4, 2021

Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital nurses demand safe staffing

Nurses say despite repeated appeals, the hospital is failing to provide much needed resources and staff, which jeopardizes patient care.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

October 2, 2021

Los Angeles nurses to hold action for patient safety

RNs at PIH Health-Good Samaritan Hospital, in Los Angeles, Calif. will hold an action Wednesday, Sept. 29 to highlight their patient safety concerns, including short staffing, lack of break relief, and the hospital’s unwillingness to address retention and recruitment problems among staff.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

September 27, 2021

UC Davis Medical Center nurses to hold a virtual press conference to demand UC provide safe staffing and stronger workplace protections

Registered nurses at UCDMC will hold a virtual press conference on Wednesday, Sept. 22.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United

September 17, 2021

Tri-City Medical Center RNs to hold community rally to address safe staffing, and nurse recruitment and retention concerns

Nurses will hold a community rally at Tri-City Medical Center Hospital in Oceanside, Calif., to express ongoing concerns about safe staffing and improvements needed to retain experienced RNs and recruit new nurses to improve patient care.

California Nurses Association

September 9, 2021