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SEIU Nurses Call for Safe Nurse Staffing Levels to Save Patients Lives
Legislators and nurses call for RN-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals that are adjusted for patient needs to reduce preventable errors and save lives.
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Legislation Calls for Safe Nurse Staffing Levels to Save Patients' Lives
House Bill 147 sets a standard the maximum number of patients that may be under a single nurse’s care for each of the various types of units in an acute care hospital. The ratios must be adjusted down (fewer patients per nurse) to account for increased p
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Victory for Aliquippa Caregivers – And More to Come
In a victory for laid-off employees of Commonwealth Medical Center (formerly Aliquippa Hospital) who have been fighting for unpaid wages, the Medical Center and its chief lender, Bridge Finance Group, agreed to pay part of the wages owed immediately and t
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Caregivers Sit-in at Community Hospital in Aliquippa, Demand Fairness for Working Families
Hospital caregivers from the former Aliquippa Hospital initiated a peaceful sit-in inside the closed medical facility to protest hospital management’s failure to pay employees’ unpaid wages that were due to them before Christmas.
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