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Pomona Valley lays off or reduces hours for hospital employees

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Saturday, July 10, 2010
By Monica Rodriguez, Staff Writer

POMONA - Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center this week informed close to 300 of its employees they will have their work hours reduced or be laid off in part due to a drop in patients.

There will be about 180 layoffs and another roughly 100 workers will have their hours cut.

A total of 349 positions at all levels will be affected, some as early as Monday, said Kathy Roche, hospital spokeswoman. Of the 349 positions, 163 full-time equivalent positions are currently vacant.

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Healthcare workers protest inadequate staffing at T.O. hospital

Ventura County Star

By Tom Kisken
Posted June 18, 2010 at 9:18 p.m.

Nurses, lab techs and other union healthcare workers in contract fights marched and waved signs Friday in front of Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, complaining inadequate staffing at the hospital compromises patient care.

“Instead of having four patients, you may have eight,” said registered nurse Nanette Logan, referring to times when other nurses are on meal or other work breaks. “You can’t watch eight.”

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Nurses picket Riverside Community Hospital

www.InstantRiverside.com
June 16, 2010

Nurses at Riverside Community Hospital are staging a picket today. The nurses, and their union, are negotiating a new contract, or collective bargaining agreement.

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Health Care Workers to Picket in Riverside

KNEWS FM 94.3

Wed, 06/16/2010 - 10:09

Several hundred nurses and nurses’ assistants are expected to picket outside Riverside Community hospital Wednesday to protest what they say are inadequate staffing levels. Members of Service Employees International Union Local 121 want to include patient and nurse safety provisions in their contract with Hospital Corp. of America, which owns and operates RCH. The union says nurse-to-patient ratios mandated by the state are routinely ignored, and workers don’t have enough help when moving patients or heavy equipment. Similar demonstrations are planned at hospitals in West Hills and Thousand Oaks.

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SEIU Local 121RN Sec-Treas in Critical Condition After Back Surgery to Repair Work Related Injury

Ventura County Star

Aimee Barajas
Posted June 15, 2010 at 6:47 p.m.

HCA Hospital Nurses to Picket June 16-18 for Patient, Nurse Safety

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ says nursing has the second highest occurrence of non-fatal, work-related injuries in the United States, primarily to their back. But, unless you’re a nurse living with a chronic or permanent injury that happened on-the-job and could have been avoided, it doesn’t quite hit home.

For SEIU Local 121RN Secretary-Treasurer Becky Long, RN, and her family, the worst has happened – she now lies in critical condition at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center and her prognosis is bleak.

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Los Robles Nurses to Picket June 18 for Patient, Nurse Safety

Ventura County Star

Aimee Barajas
Posted June 14, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

Registered Nurses at three Southern California hospitals owned by Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) will picket next week to bring attention to HCA’s refusal to implement patient and nurse safety issues into their collective bargaining agreement. Nurses say that the hospitals routinely flout California State nurse-to-patient laws, put patients and nurses in danger by not providing help for lifting patients and heavy equipment, and won’t agree to contract additions that will guarantee that a nurse have at least eight hours off between shifts to avoid nurse fatigue that can lead to dangerous patient safety mistakes.

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Annual security assessments become California Law

Noncompliance becomes a crime

HC Pro / Briefings on Hospital Safety
June 1, 2010

California, often the forerunner in compliance standards, may be leading the pack when it comes to security assessments.

In October 2009, the state revised California Health and Safety Code 1257.7, requiring hospitals to conduct security risk assessments annually and making failure to do so a crime. It took effect in January and requires that the first annual assessments begin no later than July 1, 2010, making some California hospitals scramble to perform a security assessment. CEOs or managers responsible for failure to comply could receive a criminal complaint. The law is a revision of AB 508, which passed in 1995.

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Hospital Split Brings Uncertainty

Insurance News Today

How that Prime Healthcare has purchased the Encino half of Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center from Tenet Corp., concerns about the future of Tarzana Hospital have intensified.

“Tarzana has been for sale for over four years, and we would like Tarzana Hospital to be sold so that the community can continue to rely on services it offers,” said Judith Serlin, spokeswoman for SEIU 121RN, the union that represents nurses at both Encino and Tarzana hospitals.

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Torres shadows nurse at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Pomona Now blog
by Monica Rodriguez on March 19, 2010 6:52 PM

Assemblywoman Norma Torres, D-Ontario, spent part of Friday afternoon shadowing a nurse in the labor and delivery department of Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center.

The experience was part of the "Walk a Day in My Shoes" program organized by the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU.

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Mandatory Vaccination Debate Continues In Courts, Among Stakeholders

Inside OSHA
November 23, 2009 - The debate over whether health care workers should be required to receive flu shots continues among stakeholder groups and in the courts. A key public health stakeholder group is wrestling with whether to push for mandatory vaccinations, while Service Employees International Union (SEIU) chapters in Nevada and California are entering into arbitration against Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) facilities that have adopted such policies.

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SEIU 121RN Joins Kaiser Coalition, Labor Management Partnership

Blackvoicenews.com

November 11, 2009 ‑ Service Employees International Union, Local 121RN was voted into membership by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions on Oct. 29. 121RN represents about 250 nurses at Kaiser Moreno Valley Community Hospital. 121RN will also sign onto Kaiser’s Labor Management Partnership (LMP) of which members are covered by a national collective bargaining agreement.

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