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‘We’re fighting for a public health safety issue’: Pa. nurses unions went toe-to-toe with management on hospital staffing ratios
Source: WITF March 9, 2021
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As health care workers battled the coronavirus in 2020, the pandemic laid bare issues of nurse staffing at the region’s medical systems. What was a point of debate pre-pandemic became front-and-center as patients suffering from COVID-19 inundated hospitals.
Nurses negotiated new contracts at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, Mercy Fitzgerald and Crozer Health hospitals and nursing facilities in Delaware County, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, and St. Mary’s Medical Center in Langhorne last year and staffing grids were the primary concern of union leadership. Continue reading.
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As health care workers battled the coronavirus in 2020, the pandemic laid bare issues of nurse staffing at the region’s medical systems. What was a point of debate pre-pandemic became front-and-center as patients suffering from COVID-19 inundated hospitals.
Nurses negotiated new contracts at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, Mercy Fitzgerald and Crozer Health hospitals and nursing facilities in Delaware County, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, and St. Mary’s Medical Center in Langhorne last year and staffing grids were the primary concern of union leadership.
Staffing grids are essentially standards that determine how many patients a nurse can take care of in a given hospital unit. For example, in an intensive care unit there may be a 2-1 patient-to-nurse ratio.
Board-certified surgeons Shawn Thomas, D.O., and Bennett Scaglia, M.D., will lead the program.
“We are excited and grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this collaboration between Halifax Health and UF Health,” Scaglia said in a press release. “Our No. 1 goal is to always provide a positive patient experience every day and be the leaders in our community when it comes to urologic care.”
Matthew Petkus, vice president of physician services for Halifax Health, said the objective is for the two systems to become the community health-care leader for urology services.
“Collaboration between these two programs will establish a urologic service and surgery network that focuses on providing the best possible clinical outcomes and quality for the community; maximizes access to state-of-the-art medical treatment; and assists Halifax in the development and growth of its urology program,” Petkus said in an emailed statement to The News-Journal.