Massive RN Strike at Northern California Hospitals In Strong Stand for Safe Patient Care

Key issues are patient care protections, healthcare and retirement security, and Sutter proposals to eliminate essential patient care services in Bay Area communities.

“Sutter needs to guarantee there are enough registered nurses so that when patients press their call light they know they will receive the immediate nursing care they need,” said Jan Rodolfo, RN, a nurse Alta Bates Summit Medical Center’s Oakland facility. “Nurses should be able to take their meals and breaks knowing that another RN will be able to properly care for their patients while they are away from the bedside.”

“We want protection for our patients 100 percent of the time. Not 90 percent or 80 percent of the time. All patients should have an RN directly assigned to them,” said Irene LaChance, an RN at Alta Bates’ Berkeley hospital.