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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.

… Read more about: 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:

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.

… Read more about: 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:

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.

… Read more about: 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

• 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?

… Read more about: 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:

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.

… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan: June 4, 2012 – Bring Your Own Thermometer To Work? Really!?  »

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.

… Read more about: 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

• 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.

… Read more about: 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

• Eustis out as Fairview CEO: MNA RN Barb Martin talks to the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press about Fairview’s decision to part ways with CEO Mark Eustis in the wake of the hospital system’s ongoing debt collection scandal involving Accretive.

Notes on Nursing

• Need A Nurse?

… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan: May 25, 2012 – MNA Releases new e-book on Social Media, NPR Explores Unsafe Staffing Epidemic, Fairview parts ways with CEO Mark Eustis  »