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MNA Daily NewsScan: May 25, 2012 – MNA Releases new e-book on Social Media, NPR Explores Unsafe Staffing Epidemic, Fairview parts ways with CEO Mark Eustis

25 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

  • Eustis out as Fairview CEO: MNA RN Barb Martin talks to the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press about Fairview’s decision to part ways with CEO Mark Eustis in the wake of the hospital system’s ongoing debt collection scandal involving Accretive.

Notes on Nursing

Labor Updates

  • MNA Releases new (and Free!) e-book:  MNA recently published a new multimedia e-book called “Share This! Labor Unions and Social Media” in Apple’s iBookstore. You can download it for FREE on your iPad right now! Here’s the scoop: In light of its stunning success using Social Media during the largest nursing strike in U.S. history, the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) has become known as one of the Labor movement’s leading voices on how to use Social Media effectively and strategically. ”Share This! Labor Unions and Social Media” is MNA’s free gift to the Labor community at large. Pulling back the curtain to reveal every best practice and strategic decision that has gone into MNA’s amazing Social Media success, this interactive, video-enhanced e-book allows Labor Unions to leverage Social Media to Engage Members, Impact Negotiations, Drive Mainstream Media Coverage and Shape Public Opinion.

Grab your free copy of MNA’s new e-book today!

MNA Daily NewsScan: May 23, 2012 – MNA RNs on CNN, CEOs Get Even Richer, Patients Report Inferior Care

23 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

  • U.S. Patients Report Inferior Care: Not only are sick Americans facing serious financial problems from high healthcare costs (43 percent), but many are experiencing problems with healthcare quality, according to a new poll released yesterday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NPR and the Harvard School of Public Health.
  • CEOs Raking in the $$$: The healthcare industry saw the largest increases in executive pay out of all sectors, according to a Wall Street Journal and Hay Group CEO compensation survey.

Labor Updates

  • MNA RN on CNN: MNA RN Jennifer Michelson talked Live with CNN from the streets of Chicago during the 2012 Staff Nurse Assembly. Take a look:

MNA Daily NewsScan: May 16, 2012 – “Money Hungry” (in more ways than one), NNU Stands Strong in Chicago, SEIU Votes to Strike

16 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

Labor Updates

  • SEIU Takes Strike Vote: SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a 2-5 day strike. More than 3,500 workers at eight different Twin Cities hospitals are involved in ongoing contract negotiations.
  • Crow Wing County Decision Expected Soon: Several Labor Unions – including MNA – are waiting on a ruling from a judge regarding an Unfair Labor Practice charge filed against Crow Wing County officials.
  • “They Couldn’t Shut Us Down”: Musician Tom Morello tells Rolling Stone that Friday’s National Nurses United rally in Chicago is back on track because “We [the people] stood up.”

MNA Daily NewsScan: May 14, 2012 – Moyers and DeMoro, MN RNs in Vietnam, Patient Safety and Alphabet Soup

14 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

Notes on Nursing

Labor Updates

  • Chicago Sun-Times: Nurses want to see a “Robin Hood Tax” on Wall Street trades in order to help the sick.
  • Bill Moyers Interviews NNU’s RoseAnn DeMoro: Legendary journalist and broadcaster Bill Moyers sat down over the weekend with National Nurses United’s Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro, to talk about some of the key facets of NNU’s Main Street Contract For America and more. Watch the video below:

MNA Daily NewsScan: May 11, 2012 – Nursing Shortage: Fact or Fiction?

11 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

Notes on Nursing

Labor Updates

  • Help “Stamp Out” Hunger: National Association of Letter Carriers Union’s 20th annual campaign makes it easy to donate nonperishable food items to those in need.
  • Crow Wing County Employees File Suit: Workers – including nurses - are suing the county, charging an unfair labor practice charge related to pay increases.

MNA Daily NewsScan: May 9, 2012 – Rahm Against The Machine, Leave Lori Alone and NYT Reporters Speak Out

9 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

  • Rahm Emanuel vs. Lori Swanson, Round 1: Unexpected challenge from Chicago’s Mayor to Minnesota’s Attorney General takes center stage in the ongoing Accretive Health investigation, and MNA weighs in via Minnesota Public Radio.
  • Every Last Penny: Hospitals are suing patients for nominal amounts – even if they are likely to qualify for charity care.

Notes on Nursing

Labor Updates

  • Rahm Against The Machine? National Nurses United is calling an emergency press conference today at Noon to address the last-minute decision by Chicago’s mayor to undo months of planning and preparation regarding a planned rally in the city on May 18th. The event – part of NNU’s upcoming Staff Nurse Assembly in Chicago – is to feature NNU and MNA RNs, along with former Rage Against The Machine Guitarist (and Union activist) Tom Morello, along with other organizations and protestors gathering in support of the Main Street Contract.
  • New York Times Journalists Speak Out: Reporters, Writers demand resolution as contract negotiations drag on. (Video below)

MNA Daily NewsScan: May 7, 2012 – Happy National Nurses Week, Video Explanation of NNU-championed Financial Transaction Tax

7 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Notes on Nursing

  • Happy National Nurses Day! U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is among those voicing their thanks for the work nurses do each and every day.

Labor Updates

  • Video: Featuring an interview with National Nurses United Executive Director  Rose Ann DeMoro, Real News Network details the growing movement for a Financial Transaction Tax, which has been championed from the beginning by NNU. Watch below:

RNs Reach Labor Agreement in 10 Florida Hospitals    After drawn-out negotiations, registered nurses have reached a first-ever collective bargaining agreement with 10 Florida hospitals that are part of Hospital Corporation of America, including Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, Blake Medical Center in Bradenton and Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte.

MNA Daily NewsScan: May 4, 2012 – Albert Lea RNs Spotlighted, CEOs called out, Tips on RN-Doc Relationships

4 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

  • Op/Ed: CEOs, it’s time to take ownership of the problems at your hospitals.

Notes on Nursing

Labor Updates

  • Albert Lea RNs Talk About Walks: The Albert Lea Tribune published MNA Nurse Kathleen Lehman’s detailed Letter to the Editor explaining why Albert Lea RNs have been taking to the streets in recent weeks as they fight for a fair contract.
  • California Nurses Make Noise: Thousands of California Nurses took to the streets this week as part of a one-day strike for patient safety and the nursing profession. Take a look at some of the highlights below:

MNA Daily NewsScan May 1, 2012 CA Nurses on Strike; $18 for baby aspirin; more fallout from Fairview debt collection debacle

1 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

$18 For A Baby Aspirin? Hospitals Hike Costs For Everyday Drugs For Some Patients    Sudden chest pains landed Diane Zachor in a Duluth, Minn., hospital overnight, but weeks later she had another shock – a $442 bill for the same everyday drugs she also takes at home, including more than a half dozen common medicines to control diabetes, heart problems and high cholesterol.

In Fight Over Obama Health Care Law, a Front in Minnesota  In setting up a marketplace where people can shop for insurance, the state has sought advice from consumer groups, labor unions, doctors and hospitals, employers, insurance companies, agents and brokers, and American Indian tribes.

OpEd:  Health Care Providers Have Lost Their Way  Putting your life in someone’s hands is grossly different than buying a hamburger. The April 28 column by D.J. Tice (“Pay up front? Be still my beating heart“) — in which he equated “everyday shakedowns for payment in advance” with payment upon admission to hospitals, presumably Fairview (“AG: Fairview put squeeze on patients,” April 25) — missed the mark.  Note to Nurses:  You can comment on any of these stories – please make your important perspective known. 

Tax Man Cometh for Hospitals That Flout Charity-Care Mission    But when hospitals send bill collectors to patient bedsides, file suits against the sick, all while erecting sparkling new buildings as they raise prices for their care, observers wonder whether the money is coming before the mission.

Labor Updates

Sutter Nurses On Strike.  Give them your support.    Northern California RNs will strike eight Sutter corporation hospitals Tuesday, May 1 to once again protest the wealthy corporation’s outrageous demands for more than 100 reductions in patient care protections and RN standards.  Watch RNs speak up about going on strike.

GREAT video of Albert Lea RNs speaking up and walking in solidarity.

MNA Daily NewsScan: Dayton signs HHS Bill, California RNs prep for huge strike, Bill collectors in the ER?!

30 Apr

What is this?
The MNA Daily NewsScan is our attempt to round up the day’s biggest nursing, healthcare and organized labor stories in one place! As news unfolds in real-time, we’ll update the NewsScan with new links and info, so be sure to check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

Labor Notes

Politics

  • HHS Bill Signed: With MNA President Linda Hamilton standing at his side, Gov. Mark Dayton signs 2012 HHS bill.
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