Richie Gregg lives in his foreclosed childhood home and the only reason he’s still alive is that they haven't shut off the electricity. Even with a ventilator pushing air into the 43-year-old's deteriorating lungs, he often wakes up in the night gasping for breath. Sometimes he can’t gather enough to yell for help — he certainly can’t call an ambulance. So he throws whatever is in reach at the back of his bedroom door until his housemates wake up.
Hospitals campaigning against patient limits for nurses are making false claims about their ability to afford patient care limits, according to nurses, who traveled to the headquarters of one of the state's largest care providers to make their point on Tuesday.
Nurses from the University of Vermont Medical Center and their "allies" will attend a Green Mountain Care Board public hearing Wednesday on the hospital's budget, presumably to hammer home the notion that the budget should reflect a focus on patient care and staff retention.
Members of the Oregon Nurses Association, who've been working without a contract since the end of June, appear to have resolved their differences with management at Mid-Columbia Medical Center. Nurses at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles appear to have resolved their labor dispute with management.
UVM nurses and hospital administrators reported progress made over the weekend in contract negotiations. The negotiations lasted around eight hours Saturday night. Both sides say progress was made, but an agreement still hasn't been reached.
A Michigan nurse is suing the hospital she works at for racial discrimination after it allegedly complied with the request of a patient who said she didn't want to be looked after by an African-American woman and used an expletive to describe her.