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National health care union launches nursing home reform campaign FacebookTwitterEmail The nations largest health care labor union, 1199SEIU, launched a nursing home reform campaign on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Health care workers and labor advocates rally outside Lutheran Care?•s Bethlehem Commons nursing home, where employees were recently notified that their health benefits will be terminated on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, in Delmar, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow ...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on January 19, 2021 at 3:35 AM Australian government map of rare earth deposits. WASHINGTON: The US needs to work with allies and partners to compete with China in high tech, not go it alone, leaders of a bipartisan commission said Thursday. “I went with the chairman of the seapower committee on HASC, Joe Courtney, the chairman of the Friends of Australia Caucus, to Australia,” recalled Rep. Mike Gallagher, the Republican co-chair of the congressionally chart...

Hospice workers still adjusting to pandemic related changes Paige Withey, paige.withey@hearstnp.com FacebookTwitterEmail Madison Finkel, pictured here with her husband Corey, is one of the many healthcare professionals still facing changes made to their work environment since the beginning of the pandemic. (Courtesy Photo) HARBOR BEACH — When the pandemic began earlier this year, the dramatic change in the workforce was felt by almost everyone. Now, almost a year later, hospice workers and h...

Acceptable. did she ever tell you what she saw with the other patients there and how they did in the conditions of that place? >> well, she couldnt get out of the bed. basically, if she was up, she was in a wheelchair because she cant walk at this time. and i would say from my viewpoint, because i was there a lot, i would see patients in the hall ways that needed probably to be attended to. they were in wheelchairs. and i felt bad because the nurses and the cnas could not get there in time, et c...

Sure, i mean we were concerned. >> helpless. >> yeah. i mean, it was -- we werent very happy about it. but that was the hospitals policy. and we just had to go by it. >> right. >> so they sent two nurses and two cnas from here with the ten people that went over there and took care of her over there. >> you are a jacksonville native. you have been here your whole life. on the scale of storm anxiety where does this one rank for you? >> i went through a lig hurricane when i was little. back then it...

Crow. is part of this part of the general wage gap and also the sense that womens work isnt really work. its just a natural extension of who we are as people. >> absolutely. i mean, of the many original sins in the u.s., one of them has to be the decision not to value care work as a public good. i mean something very specific by that. that we fund it fully so that everyone has access to quality care and that we pay a living wage. whether were talking about domestic workers or home care workers o...