Category: human resources

UH Geneva (Ohio) Medical Center, part of Cleveland-based University Hospitals, has reneged on a promise that nurses would receive a COVID-19 appreciation bonus in April, according to the union that represents them.

Registered nurses at Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., held a speak-out April 21 over concerns about staffing and patient care, according to ABC affiliate WLOS.

Sacramento-based Sutter Health said nurses who went on strike April 18 will not be allowed to return to work until the morning of April 23, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital administrators have notified union leaders that its nurse members who strike later in April risk losing pay and health benefits, according to Palo Alto Weekly.

Nurses and healthcare workers at Sutter Health facilities in Northern California will strike April 18 to call for safe staffing and health and safety protections, according to the unions that represent them. 

Amid the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, inadequate staffing, workplace violence and moral and mental distress are increasingly challenges for nurses, according to a national survey released April 14.

Thousands of nurses at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s hospitals in Palo Alto, Calif., will strike beginning April 25.

Registered nurses and other healthcare workers at 15 Sutter Health hospitals in Northern California intend to strike on April 18 to call for safe staffing and health and safety protections, according to the unions that represent them. 

Workers at Washington, D.C.-based Howard University Hospital plan to strike April 11 for 24 hours, according to news station WTTG.

Nurses from Washington, D.C.-based Howard University Hospital and the university’s student medical center have announced plans to strike later this month, reported the DCist April 4.