Hospital Related Topics 
Scrubs
APRIL 6, 2023
Patients and staff are no longer required to wear face masks in hospitals and long-term care facilities, but it is still highly recommended. COVID-19 deaths have declined by over 80%, and new COVID-19 hospitalizations are down nearly 80%. California’s mask mandate for all healthcare settings came to end on Monday.
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OCTOBER 1, 2024
The months-long nurses’ strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has come to a potential resolution after a tentative agreement was reached between the hospital and the United Steelworkers Local 4-200, which represents approximately 1,700 nurses.
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Scrubs
JULY 17, 2024
San Diego, CA — Nurses at Rady Children’s Hospital have voted to authorize a strike from July 22 to July 24, following months of unsuccessful contract negotiations. The decision comes after the United Nurses of Children’s Hospital (UNOCH), the Teamsters union representing over 1,500 nurses, announced the vote on July 11.
Scrubs
MARCH 30, 2023
Nurses have been organizing to get federal lawmakers to pass a bill that would set minimum nurse-patient ratios for every department in every hospital in the country. The bill, known as The Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, was authored by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in the Senate and Rep.
Scrubs
APRIL 25, 2023
A new law is set to pass in the state of Florida that will require all hospitals receiving Medicaid funding to collect information regarding their patients’ immigration status as part of the admissions process. Patients’ names also wouldn’t be disclosed to the state. You don’t know people’s immigration status by looking at them,” Tipton said.
Scrubs
MAY 5, 2023
Department of Health and Human Services for burning a sacred candle in one of its hospital chapels. HHS threatened to take away the system’s Medicaid/Medicare funding if the hospital doesn’t extinguish the flame, and now Saint Francis is suing to keep the candle lit.
Scrubs
AUGUST 14, 2023
However, some hospitals and nurses’ unions are trying to put a stop to the violence. hospitals are trying to change the narrative. The California Nurses Association is lobbying for a law that would give OSHA more authority when it comes to enforcing hospital workplace safety. Sources: [link] [link] [link] The post How U.S.
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