Starting at 7 a.m. Tuesday, nurses and caregivers at Swedish Edmonds are expected to leave their posts and form a picket line, as fill-in health care workers take over for the duration of a three-day strike. The Edmonds employees are part of nearly 8,000 workers expected to strike this week across each Swedish campus. The health care provider is spending at least $11 million on thousands of replacement workers for the strike, which ends Friday at 7:30 a.m, CEO Guy Hudson said.
Representatives from the New York State Nurses Association union representing nurses at Massena Hospital say they don’t think St. Lawrence Health System is moving quickly enough to get a new contract in place. Massena Hospital officials say they are in the process of starting negotiations and declined further comment.
The University of Louisville intends to hire 290 nurses and 98 doctors to fortify the depleted ranks at Jewish Hospital, Mary and Elizabeth Hospital and other facilities. For months, as the former KentuckyOne properties in Louisville sat on the market, questions about the future sale led doctors and nurses to leave the troubled health system.
According to the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 222 Facebook page and a news release, the union representing MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center's union nurses has reached a tentative labor agreement with the hospital.
As the Ohio Board of Nursing considers taking disciplinary action against more than two dozens nurses for their alleged roles in the administration of potentially excessive doses of pain medicine at Mount Carmel West and Mount Carmel St. Ann’s, attorneys continue to gather expert testimony. Sarah Blowers, a Certified Nurse Practitioner from the Cleveland area, answered questions from the state’s attorneys and those for eight of the nurses, on Wednesday.
A shortage of nurses elevated the misery of a woman in my support group during a recent health crisis, she informed us. Because I participate in a clinical trial, in which I am vigilantly monitored in both Bloomington and Indianapolis hospitals, I was surprised. But I quickly began to realize that her ordeal could not possibly be unusual and then to fear that our current health care system is becoming more unfriendly, inhospitable to patients and to nurses as well.