URGENT: Please help MNA’s Northland RNs ASAP!
2012-06-29
Please take a moment to watch this video, see the devastation MNA RNs are suffering in the Northland after the June 20 floods and make an online contribution through MNA to help them!
MNA Daily NewsScan: June 29, 2012 – MNA Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling, Rock Center Checks Out Accretive
2012-06-29
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
- Please keep the unidentified St. John’s Hospital nurse in your thoughts today: The nurse was punched and kicked while trying to stop a man from assaulting a pregnant woman in her hospital room.
- Report: Hospital nurses suffer from depression at twice the rate of the general population.
HEALTHCARE
- NBC’s national “Rock Center” program landed in Minnesota last night with its coverage of the ongoing scandal involving debt collectors behaving badly inside Twin Cities Hospitals.
MNA Daily NewsScan, June 28, 2012: ACA Upheld; RNs Know “Medicare for All” is best solution
2012-06-28
HEALTH CARE
Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law Roberts joins majority, says mandate is permissable under Congress’s taxing authority. The 5-4 ruling — a major victory for the White House — will help redefine the power of the national government and affect the health-care choices of millions of Americans.
MNA President Linda Hamilton, RN: We Still Have Much Work To Do “While we are pleased the Supreme Court upheld the entire Affordable Care Act and that millions of deserving Americans will receive the health care coverage they so desperately need as a result, the job isn’t done,” Hamilton said.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 27, 2012 – “SiCKO” Stars Reunite, MNA’s Bagley Nurses Need Support
2012-06-27
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:
HEALTHCARE
SiCKO stars reunite Five years after release of their searing indictment of the failings of the U.S. healthcare system, filmmaker Michael Moore and the real-life stars of SiCKO, will hold a reunion Saturday night in Philadelphia.
Two SiCKO’s stars, 9/11 responder Reggie Cervantes and National Nurses United’s Donna Smith, who will both be in Philadelphia, have spoken out at NNU-sponsored health screenings and town hall meetings across California:
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LABOR
Support Bagley Nurses!
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Show Your (Online) Support for Bagley RNs!
2012-06-26
Our Bagley RNs are mired in a tough fight with management right now. If you have a minute, can you share some thoughts/words of encouragement for them from your own experience?
MNA Daily NewsScan, June 26, 2012: Twin Cities #1 in fitness; rural health care changing
2012-06-26
HEALTH CARE
Twin Cities Ranks #1 in Fitness High rates of physical activity helped to propel Minneapolis-St. Paul to the top of the list of the American College of Sports Medicine’s 2012 American Fitness Index (AFI) for the second year in a row, while raised obesity levels and smoking pushed Oklahoma City to the bottom.
Change is Coming to Rural Health Care, Whatever the Supreme Court Decides Even if the Supreme Court rules some part of the law unconstitutional, he said, “I don’t think it will derail the move forward toward change. It’s not prudent for health organizations to sit back and wait.
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MNA Awards: Nominate a Nurse!
2012-06-25
Do you know a special registered nurse?
As nurses, we all know someone who is an outstanding practitioner, an inspiring educator or mentor, an unfailing supporter of nurses in collective bargaining, a nurse executive who models leadership, or a researcher who has made a real difference to patients.
Would you like to see that special registered nurse be recognized by the profession?
The MNA awards, presented at the Convention in October every year, honor the RN members of MNA who exemplify the best of the nursing profession and of our union.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, June 25, 2012 – Nursing the wounded; HC to add 5.6M new jobs by 2020
2012-06-25
NURSING
Nursing the Wounded There’s a new effort being made to train more of the nation’s nurses to help care for this growing population of veterans. First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden recently launched an initiative to create specialized training in veterans health care so nurses nationwide can better care for this coming wave of new vets.
HEALTH CARE
Health Care to Create 5.6 Million New Jobs by 2020 The healthcare industry will spawn 5.6 million new jobs by 2020 – most of them high-paying – but most unemployed Americans won’t have the expensive schooling necessary to land them.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 22, 2012 – Maple Grove Hospital Drops Accretive, New Jobs Needed
2012-06-22
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
- So Long, Accretive: Maple Grove Hospital is the second Minnesota health care provider to cut its ties to Accretive Health, the consulting firm sued by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson for alleged patient privacy violations and strong-arm debt collection tactics.
- Listen to Nurses! New study: Hospitals that listen to and support their front-line staff are more likely to provide high-quality care, recruit and retain better employees.
MNA Daily NewsScan, June 21, 2012: 26k uninsured die each year; hospitals lag in workforce diversity
2012-06-21
Editor’s Note: Our thoughts are with colleagues and community in Duluth and elsewhere in the state, in the aftermath of flood devastation.
HEALTH CARE
26,000 Uninsured Die Each Year The study, released on Wednesday by the consumer advocacy group Families USA, estimates that a record high of 26,100 people aged 25 to 64 died for lack of health coverage in 2010, up from 20,350 in 2005 and 18,000 in 2000. That makes for a rate of about 72 deaths per day, or three per hour.
$129 Marked for Community Health Centers The 2010 federal healthcare overhaul established the Community Health Center Fund to provide $11 billion over five years to fund health center operations, expansions and construction.
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