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Nurses Protest Short Staffing at Washington Hospital Center

By James Parks

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MedStar Health executives spent nearly $175 million on a new patient care center at Franklin Square Hospital Center in Baltimore County, Md., complete with fireplaces. But nurses say short staffing has led to problems in patient care at the MedStar’s Washington Hospital Center (WHC).

Today, members of National Nurses United (NNU) who work at WHC protested outside Franklin Square to let the public know that MedStar is jeopardizing patient care by its bottom-line tactics.

WHC management unilaterally imposed restrictions on nurses? ability to advocate for their patients by eliminating a labor-management patient-care committee and making significant wage and benefit cuts. To learn more, click here.

The protestors also demanded MedStar reopen contract negotiations, which have been stalled since July. Earlier this month, the 1,600 registered nurses at WHC voted to join NNU. They had been in the independent organization Nurses United of the National Capital Region.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).

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