LOS ANGELES (AP) — California reported its second-highest number of daily coronavirus deaths Wednesday with 459 lives lost, bringing the death toll to 2,504 in the last week as more
California Coronavirus Updates: Sacramento Likely To Remain Under Stay-At-Home Orders
Thursday, December 31, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
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Stay-at-home orders for the Sacramento region are likely to be extended, state officials announced Thursday, as intensive care unit capacity continued to stay low.
The region fell under the state s regional stay-at-home order Dec. 10, after intensive care unit capacity dropped below the state s 15% threshold to remain open. Under the orders, businesses such as barbershops and nail salons must close, while retail stores can stay open at 20% capacity and restaurants are limited to takeout-only.
Nurses at Sutter’s Sacramento psychiatry hospital unionize; Rideout RNs ratify contract [The Sacramento Bee]
Dec. 31 The California Nurses Association achieved two victories in December after registered nurses at Marysville’sAdventist Health and Rideout hospital voted to ratify a three-year labor agreement and RNs at Sutter Center for Psychiatry in Sacramento voted to join the union.
CNA now will represent roughly 100 nurses in bargaining with Sutter Health for a new contract at the hospital on Folsom Boulevard, near Power Inn Road. The Sutter nurses voted 62-13 via mail-in ballots in an election run by the National Labor Relations Board.
In the Sacramento region, CNA already represents Sutter registered nurses at the company’s Roseville medical center, as well as at Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital and hospice.
Nerissa Black
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Nerissa Black works as a telemetry nurse at the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif. Since early December, she s been tasked with caring for six critically ill patients per shift instead of four. Nerissa Black
California s telemetry nurses, who specialize in the electronic monitoring of critically ill patients, normally take care of four patients at once. But ever since the state relaxed California s mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios in mid-December, Nerissa Black has had to keep track of six.
And these six patients are really sick: they all need constant electronic heart monitoring and many of them are being treated simultaneously for a stroke and COVID-19, or a heart attack and COVID-19. With more patients than usual needing more complex care, Black says she s worried she ll miss something or make a mistake.