Baltimore St. Agnes nurses demand safe staffing from billion-dollar employers
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- On the morning of Thursday, June 20, unionized nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a rally outside the hospital to raise awareness of their efforts to secure a first contract and to show management that they’re not backing down from their core demands for safe staffing and an operational model that puts patients and patient care first. "St. Agnes nurses are calling on Ascension to accept their proposals to improve safe staffing and, subsequently, nurse retention," a press release from National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) stated. "Nearly 20 percent of nurses at St. Agnes began employment at the hospital after January 1 of this year. Meanwhile, just over a third of nurses have more than four years of experience at the hospital... The Catholic hospital system is one of the largest in the country with 140 hospitals in 19 states and also one of the wealthiest, with cash reserves, an investment company, and a private equity operation worth billions of dollars-and, because of its nonprofit status, is exempt from paying federal taxes." In this on-the-ground episode, we take you to the NNOC/NNU picket line and speak with Nicki Horvat, an RN in the Neonatal Intensive Care unit at Ascension St. Agnes and member of the bargaining team, about what she and her coworkers are fighting for.
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We were at St Agnes years ago for an emergency. Best hospital experience ever. The staff was amazing ❤ it’s a shame what’s happened to the healthcare “industry”.
I had an excellent clinical RN education at Evanston Hospital, Evanston Illinois. I had years of primary care, bedside experience when I graduated. I was SO proud to be a valued member of the healthcare team there. Upon graduation, I relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. It didn't take long to see where healthcare and nursing was headed. I stopped renewing my RN license and never looked back in the 90s. I'm hopeful that today's nurses can work together to bring care back to the healthcare industry. I can help you out with paper charting lol
You go, nurses!
Go nurses go, nurses go nurses go nurses go nurses go nurses go nurses yeah yeah
The nurses run the hospitals in some cases I've gotten better communications from them than I have doctors. I support the nurses 100%
One year of CEO WAGES and BONUSES could increase workers income for YEARS!!!!
Yet further proof that those with 7 to 10 digit yearly incomes are no different than cancer tumors for the national economy. America has reached the last stages of terminal cancer long ago, so much so that in three months, one election could reshape the government into a dictatorship, or let us stay as we are for four years for unregulated corporations to continue to destroy Earth's ability to sustain life for the sake of profit margins. What will give out first, human civilization or the earth itself? Thats the direction we're going in.
Unfortunately, the CEO and other executives will not be taking a salary reduction so that the actual working oeople can be paid what they should.
Now do this for Residents. The difference in education and training between the two is not even comparable. If the Nurses think they've got it bad, they should think again.
Yeah this is an average American hospital all saying it’s a religious hospital does is sectionalize the narrative.
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