MNA Member RN Barb Warren-Bloms (located on the far right and wearing a black shirt in the photo above) just returned from Haiti today, and she’s already got more than 200 photos up on her Facebook page. Barb’s journey to Haiti has already been well-chronicled, and in the coming days we’ll make sure to share some of her most powerful stories and photos as well. Barb is the first MNA nurse to be formally deployed to Haiti through the National Nurses United organization’s relief efforts. Barb spent two weeks on the floating Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort, and she’ll be headed back to work here at her hospital in Minneapolis on Monday.

When We Fight, We Win
by Joe Steiger, RN, North Memorial
Community members, faith groups, public advocacy groups, MNA, and other labor unions joined forces to form a Community Benefits Agreement Coalition aimed at fighting for the communities impacted by the Sanford takeover of North Memorial Health, as well as Sutter Health’s proposed takeover of the Allina Health system.
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