Courtesy of CNN
CNN reported from California that About 6,000 California nurses staged a one-day strike at several hospitals Thursday, protesting what they called an “erosion of quality of care and cuts to patient protections,” National Nurses United said.
The Long Beach registered nurses are in a dispute with management over RN-to-patient staffing levels and safe patient lift policies to prevent accidents and injuries, the union said.
The nurses are also objecting to hospital demands for increases in health care premiums, which they claimed would cost the nurses about $3,000 more in out-of-pocket premiums — which the hospitals disputed.
Officials with Memorial Care Health System, which owns both Long Beach facilities, said that more than 30% of the 2,000 nurses decided not to participate in the strike.
Read the story here from the CNN website.
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