At least two dozen nurses and union organizers picketed outside a Walgreens in the Loop Tuesday afternoon to protest Advocate Medical Group’s firing of a nurse practitioner who worked in the Advocate clinic at an Oak Lawn Walgreens.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday that the initiative petition seeking to impose limits on the number of patients a nurse can be assigned to care for at a time can go to voters on the November ballot.
The nurse who is accused of reusing syringes at Cherokee Nation's W.W. Hastings Hospital, which caused an HIV and hepatitis scare, has been identified as the principal chief's son, John Baker, RN.
Blue Valley Hospital offered employee discounts on weight-loss surgery and asked workers to falsify records to try to pump up its inpatient numbers enough to continue getting Medicare money, according to inspectors.
An overwhelming majority of the University of Vermont Medical Center’s nurses voted to authorize their union's bargaining committee to call for a two-day strike if its demands are not met when the nurses' contract runs out July 9.
As night fell Wednesday, bargaining teams for Berkshire Medical Center and its registered nurses remained secluded in a downtown Pittsfield hotel, working for a second straight day in a bid to avert a Monday strike. While a breakthrough remained possible, the hospital was continuing to refine plans to replace its RNs for five days next week.