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Personnel to Give Meds The amendment that would have allowed unlicensed personnel to administer medications was withdrawn from the payment reform bill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 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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Support MNA RN Colleen Espinosa as she fights to keep her home!
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Colleen Espinosa is a float pool nurse at North Memorial Hospital, and she’s a perfect example of why we need a Main Street Contract For America and a Robin Hood Tax – two causes championed by National Nurses United and MNA.
Here’s her story, as told by her son Nick:
My mother Colleen Mckee Espinosa is a single parent of three who is facing foreclosure after CitiBank refused to accept payment on her mortage, having moved up the due date for her payment without her knowledge. They then added thousands of dollars in attorney fees because the home went into foreclosure, making it impossible for her to catch up.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 1, 2012 – Patient-Centered Care a “Must” for ACOs
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round 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
- Patient-Centered Care a “Must” for ACOs: New white paper argues that Accountable Care Organizations need to be built with “the patient at the heart.”
- Full Recap of Accretive Hearing: MNA RN Jean Ross was among those testifying this week during Sen. Al Franken’s special field hearing on Accretive Health and the controversial debt collection tactics employed inside Fairview hospitals.
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MNA Daily NewsScan – May 31, 2012: RNs Say Hospital Staffing Crisis Avoidable with Ratios; Listen to Frontline Staff
NURSES
Nurses, Patients Voice Concerns Over Avoidable Hospital Staffing Crisis The whole system seems to be “missing something” when it reaps massive profits but can’t keep hospitals properly staffed. But the crisis can’t be explained simply by an overall “shortage” of nurses. The real cause of the staffing squeeze might be the tight fists of hospital CEOs, who don’t want to invest in maintaining an adequate, qualified workforce.
HEALTH CARE
Tax-Exempt Hospitals Eyed Amid State Budget Gaps Following through on a promise, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced more than two months ago that the state would resume denying tax exemptions to hospitals that operate more like businesses than charities.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: May 29, 2012 – MNA RN Jean Ross asked to testify about nightmare experiences with Accretive Health, Cancer in America
What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round 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
- MNA RN Jean Ross Called to Testify on Accretive: MNA RN Jean Ross, one of the Presidents of National Nurses United, has been asked by Sen. Al Franken to testify tomorrow about her nightmare experiences with Accretive Health inside Fairview Ridges Hospital. We’ll be Live Tweeting and LiveStreaming the hearing, which starts at 10 a.m.