MNA Daily NewsScan: June 13, 2012 – Sutter RNs Begin Strike, Robin Hood Ready?
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan rounds up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories. As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!
Stories we’re scanning:
Labor
- Sutter RNs Begin Strike: Despite amassing more than $4 Billion in profits since 2005, California-based Sutter Health is trying to impose massive cuts that would negatively impact both patients and nurses. Follow National Nurses United on Twitter for the latest updates on today’s strike by Sutter RNs.
- Victory! Thanks to the help of the Occupy Homes MN movement and many others, MNA RN Colleen Espinosa’s long battle to save her home from foreclosure by Citibank was successful.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, June 12, 2012: American exceptionalism? Not when it comes to HC; Sutter RNs strike update
Stories we’re scanning:
HEALTH CARE
Health Care Costs Causing More Americans to Go Without Needed Care Health care costs are weighing on Americans’ minds — and sapping their budgets, according to a new survey that shows that within the last year, more than half of people needing medical care didn’t get it because of the expense.
U.S. Lags In Bettering Value of Health Care While the U.S. health system has the highest per capita cost of the 12 nations studied — spending 17.6% of its gross domestic product on healthcare — it ranked at the bottom in terms of readiness to implement a value-based care system.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 11, 2012 – Nurses Are (Financial) Key, Pensions Under Assault
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan rounds up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories. As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!
Stories we’re scanning:
Nursing
- Listen Up, CEOs: Story cites Nurses as key to making or breaking future margins.
Labor
- Pensions Under Assault: Public employees in California seeing retirement benefits rolled back – even for current employees.
- Op/Ed: Labor Unions aren’t the problem with U.S. Postal Service – Congress is.
MNA Daily NewsScan: June 8, 2012 – Mayo Moving In, St. Louis RNs say “Yes!” to NNU and more!
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan rounds up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories. As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!
Stories we’re scanning:
Health Care
- Mayo Moving In: The Star Tribune notes that Rochester, MN-based Mayo Clinic has reached a tentative agreement to purchase and take over Fairview’s Red Wing Health Services location.
- Young, Uninsured and in Debt: The Commonwealth Fund Health Insurance Tracking Survey of Young Adults finds that between November 2010 and November 2011, an estimated 13.7 million young adults ages 19–25 stayed on or joined their parents’ health plans, including 6.6 million who likely would not have been able to do so prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
MNA Daily NewsScan, June 7, 2012: MA RNs defeat unlicensed personnel measure; Olympic gold may be tarnished
NOTES ON NURSING
Massachusetts Nurses Derail Proposed Law Allowing Unlicensed Personnel to Give Meds The amendment that would have allowed unlicensed personnel to administer medications was withdrawn from the payment reform bill
LABOR UPDATES
State Unions Reach Tentative Agreement Covering 21,000 Workers AFSCME and MAPE have reached a tentative deal on a two-year collective bargaining agreement with the State of Minnesota.
AFL-CIO – Olympic Medal Producer Tarnishes Spirit of the Games Summer Olympic Games medal supplier, Rio Tinto—a union-busting global mining conglomerate with a track record of worker and environmental abuse—should be kept off the podium in London, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 6, 2012 – Grading Hospitals on Patient Safety, CA Nurses Set to Strike, Sugar Workers Head to HQ
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan rounds up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories. As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!
Stories we’re scanning:
Health Care
- MHA Questions Validity of Patient Safety Data: The Star Tribune notes that a new attempt by a consumer group to give hospitals a letter grade when it comes to patient safety is being pooh-poohed by the Minnesota Hospital Association. Fear not, because we have a solution: Want to know the truth about patient safety at your hospital?
MNA Daily NewsScan, June 5, 2012: Another chance to get health care right? Labor woes at Belmont
NOTES ON NURSING
Can Patient Photos Help Reduce Error? Putting children’s photos in their electronic hospital charts could help reduce one type of medical error, a study published Monday suggests.
HEALTH CARE
DeMoro: Maybe We Can Get It Right If President Obama is now confiding to Democratic donors that he may have to “revisit” health care in a second term if the Supreme Court throws out his first attempt, as Bloomberg News reported June 1, maybe this time we can get it right.
Hospitals Add Palliative Care Programs at a Feverish Pace The field has expanded so rapidly that a majority of American hospitals now have palliative programs, to the delight of patients who say they’ve finally found relief and a sympathetic ear.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 4, 2012 – Bring Your Own Thermometer To Work? Really!?
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan rounds up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories. As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!
Stories we’re scanning:
Nursing News
- Bring Your Own Thermometer to Work? New Zealand RNs forced to take drastic measures – including bringing their own pens and thermometers to work – in light of drastic budget cuts that have also resulted in unsafe staffing levels.
- Doing Her Part: California RN sees need, builds program to offer nonprofit health services to homeless pregnant women in Bay Area.
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