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As a result, many are quitting their jobs in substantial numbers all across the country, with 62% of hospitals reporting a nurse vacancy rate higher than 7.5%, according to a 2021 NSI Nursing ...
Leo Britton is a newly graduated registered nurse from Struthers, with over 10 years of health care experience, including nine years as a nursing assistant specializing in long-term and ...
Houze is among more than 500 nurses, doctors and other medical staff California has brought in and deployed to hospitals that are running out of capacity to treat the most severe COVID-19 cases.
Madera Community Hospital is fully accredited by the American Osteopathic Association's Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP), [2] by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act, 1988 (CLIA) program, [3] and is a member of the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California and the California Healthcare Association. [4]
To push for better working conditions National Nurses United is lobbying in support of five bills on Capitol Hill during National Nurses’ Week, including one that addresses nurse staffing standards.
California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. [3] In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.
From 1995 to 2002, the hospital was managed by Catholic Healthcare West, [2] a change opposed by nurses' unions. [9] In 2002, the hospitals withdrew to become the independent Daughters of Charity Health System. [10] [11] In 2011, Seton Medical Center was ranked fifth of forty-four Bay Area hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. [12]
The new contract at Cooper calls for an average of 1 nurse to 4-5 patients instead of 1-to-5 ratios in the medical, surgical, oncology and telemetry departments.