“While Ascension claims to provide ‘spiritually-centered holistic care,’ nurses’ experiences reflect the reality of Ascension’s hypocrisy. Francis Hospital, said of the hospital chain, which does not pay federal taxes because of its nonprofit status. “Ascension management is short-changing its nurses and its patients,” Nichlous Whitehead, an RN in the surgery unit at St. The strikes come after Ascension repeatedly dismissed nurses’ solutions for patient safety during contract negotiations, including their proposals to enforce safe staffing and improve nurse recruitment and retention. Live strike coverage is on NNU’s social accounts – see below for details.
“Ascension’s dangerous staffing practices disrupt our ability to provide quality care and put our patients at risk every day.
“Management’s retaliatory threats are despicable, but union nurses won’t give up on our fight for our patients,” said Kris Fuentes, a registered nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin. Francis Hospital (Wichita, Kan.), and Ascension Seton Medical Center (Austin, Texas), there is now even greater momentum and motivation to speak out and demand management negotiate first contracts with its RNs to improve the health of their patients and communities. Joseph Hospita l (Wichita, Kan.), Ascension via Christi St. Among the 2,000 registered nurses at Ascension via Christi St. Driven by their concerns about patient safety, these will be the largest nurse strikes in Texas and Kansas history.Īscension management’s punitive three-day lockout of nurses who go on strike has failed to intimidate them. Registered nurses in Texas and Kansas at three Ascension hospitals are moving forward with historic one-day strikes on Tuesday, June 27, to protest management’s resistance to bargain in good faith with RNs for union contracts that would help correct the endemic staffing crisis, announced National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU). 2,000 Ascension nurses will strike on June 27 for strong contracts to combat health care giant’s unsafe staffing practices
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