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NURSES UNITED Management of Hospitals Cover_FINAL 2/9/12 5:08 PM Page 1 December 2011 NURSE, FATHER, OCCUPIER National Putting a face to the Occupy movement PRIVATE INEQUITY NURSE RNs protest investment firm THE VOICE OF NATIONAL NURSES UNITED management of hospitals RNS PUT HEAT ON EMPLOYERS WITH WALKOUT Strike While It’sHot TOC_Layout 1 2/9/12 5:11 PM Page 2 Letter from the Council of Presidents the end of the year and For those of you who may be coming a little late to the beginning of the next one is a party or are still unsure about what the Occupy movement natural time for reflection. means, you may enjoy reading the profile in this issue about Looking back on 2011 and for- one of our RN members, Doug Connor, and why he believes ward to 2012 fills us all with a so deeply in the Occupy movement. Doug is an Iraq War sense of accomplishment, as veteran, an ICU nurse, a father, a husband, an Occupy vol- well as excitement and antici- unteer, and an all-around good guy. pation, of all the progress we And as a reminder that our fate is interconnected with have made and all the work those of people across the globe, we also have a feature in that we still have to do. this issue about the health crisis in Greece. One of the Euro- We would say that the over- pean Union countries hit hardest by the bad global econo- arching theme of 2011 was my and now on the verge of defaulting on its debts, millions “protest.” From Madison, Wis. of people have been marching in the streets against austeri- to Wall Street in New York City and then on to cities across all ty measures the government has imposed. Yet Greek police 50 states and around the world, people were mad and finally have tried to crush the demonstrations with unbelievable taking to the streets to demand justice, opportunity, and dig - violence. Greek nurses, doctors, and other medical workers nity. We are so proud that the registered nurses of National are literally putting their lives on the line by participating Nurses United have, from the beginning, been in the thick of in the mass protests and also in providing first aid to it all. We were there in Madison in February, leading marches injured protestors at these actions. and shifting the debate to one of no concessions for public Nurses, as patient advocates, are natural protesters and employees and working people. We were on Wall Street in fighters—the nurses of NNU particularly so. People look June, one of the earliest groups in this country to be calling for to us and look up to us, and we will not let them down. a tax on the financial speculation that was largely responsible for this recession, or depression, of which no end appears to Deborah Burger, RN | Karen Higgins, RN | Jean Ross, RN be in sight. We were there giving first aid in Zuccotti Park, National Nurses United Council of Presidents when Occupy Wall Street captured the nation’s imagination and energy. And we will continue to be there in 2012. This year will be the year that we translate all that anger and frustration into concrete solutions, solutions like a tax on Wall Street Stay connected trades that could generate up to $350 billion a year to put FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/NationalNurses people back to work, give people the healthcare they need, and FLICKR: www.flickr.com/nationalnursesunited begin to rebuild our nation’s physical and social infrastructure. TWITTER: @RNmagazine, @NationalNurses YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/NationalNursesUnited NATIONAL NURSE,™ (ISSN 2153-0386 combined issues in January and Febru- Please contact us with EXECUTIVE EDITOR print/ISSN 2153-0394 online) The ary, and July and August. your story ideas RoseAnn DeMoro Voice of National Nurses United, Periodicals postage paid at Oakland, They can be about practice or manage- EDITOR Lucia Hwang December 2011 Volume 107/10 is California. POSTMASTER: send address ment trends you’ve observed, or simply published by National Nurses United, changes to National Nurse,™ 2000 something new you’ve encountered GRAPHIC DESIGN Jonathan Wieder 2000 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612-2908. in the profession. They can be about 94612-2908. It provides news of organi- To send a media release or announce- one nurse, unit, or hospital, or about COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Charles Idelson zational activities and reports on devel- ment, fax (510) 663-0629. National the wider landscape of healthcare opments of concern to all registered Nurse™ is carried on the NNU website policy from an RN’s perspective. CONTRIBUTORS Gerard Brogan, RN, nurses across the nation. It also carries at www.nationalnursesunited.org. They can be humorous, or a matter Hedy Dumpel, RN, JD, general coverage and commen tary on For permission to reprint articles, of life and death. If you’re a writer and Jan Rabbers, Donna Smith, David Schildmeier, matters of nursing practice, community write to Editorial Office. To subscribe, would like to contribute an article, Ann Kettering Sincox and public health, and healthcare policy. send $40 ($45 foreign) to Subscription please let us know. You can reach us at PHOTOGRAPHY It is published monthly except for Department. [email protected] Jaclyn Higgs, Tad Keyes TOC_Layout 1 2/9/12 5:11 PM Page 3 10 14 Contents 4 News Briefs RNs protest private equity management of hospitals 5 | Maine RNs convince hospital to pull bad IVs; Nurses win annual poll for honesty and ethics 6 | 6,000 California RNs strike 7 | Chicago Southside RNs unionize 8 | Children’s Hospital RNs settle contract; St. Joseph RNs win $12 million 4 overtime lawsuit; Marin General RNs win new contract; Massachusetts RNs turn out in numbers at ratios hearing; Texas nurses kick off new year strategizing for ratio bill 14 Under Attack Greek medical workers risk life and limb to save 9 All the World’s a Stage national healthcare system and the lives of fellow DNNU nurses are working internationally to help revive protestors. By Kia Mistilis global health and economies. By RoseAnn DeMoro 20 Editorial Index 2011 10 Preoccupied Where did I read that again? Don’t hunt through While some people think the Occupy movement is stacks of back issues looking for that article. Consult made up of just the homeless and angry youth, our handy index of what we published in 2011. many working Americans like registered nurse Doug Connor are also joining in to make a better ON THE COVER: Long Beach Memorial Medical world for the 99 percent. By Erin FitzGerald Center and Miller Children’s Hospital RNs went on strike Dec. 22 to fight for a fair contract and safe break relief staffing. U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn came to the strike lines in support. Photo by Joseph Newlin. DECEMBER 2011 WWW.NATIONALNURSESUNITED.ORG NATIONAL NURSE 3 NewsBriefs_OCT 2/9/12 5:30 PM Page 4 NEWS BRIEFS RN Janet DeMoranville is standing up against the private equity investment firm that now owns Morton Hospital where she has worked for 13 years, saying the company is more concerned about profits than patients. “They are just out to make money,” said DeMoranville, describing the motives of Cerberus. “They don’t care how they do it, or what cuts they have to make to get it. They have to realize that healthcare is not a money-making business. It’s a patient care industry. That’s what it needs to be about.” DeMoranville was one of five Morton nurses who joined more than 150 other Nurses Protest Private Equity Management of Hospitals nurses from the Massachusetts Nurses Asso- NATIONAL ciation to protest Cerberus at the firm’s corporate headquarters in New York. The undreds of nurses and their protest, which received the support of the supporters from across the Occupy Wall Street movement, featured United States converged chants against Cerberus and a skit by the Houtside the headquarters of nurses based on the Christmas movies It’s Cerberus Capital Management a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol, in New York City on Dec. 20 to protest the featuring Cerberus executives as the greedy practices of the multibillion-dollar private Mr. Potter and Scrooge characters. MNA equity firm’s healthcare unit, Steward also used the event to unveil a giant, inflat- Health Care System. Cerberus-Steward, able three-headed dog with fangs used to which now operates 10 hospitals in Massa- mock the firm’s fictional namesake—a chusetts, has partnered with a number of place,” said Karen Higgins, RN and co-presi- canine monster in Greek mythology that physician practices locally and is also enter- dent, National Nurses United. “It is a devel- guarded the gates of hell. ing the health insurance market. Cerberus- opment that spells danger for patients and The nurses report a number of alarming Steward has come under increasing communities across the country.” changes since Cerberus-Steward took over. criticism for cornering the market with Cerberus owns an array of businesses, Staffing levels have been reduced, specialty predatory practices, undercutting patient including the Freedom Group subsidiary, a units for the care of specific conditions have care with its push for profits. leading manufacturer of guns and ammuni- been eliminated, and patients are treated like The nurses, who came from Massachu- tion. Last year it added the chain of hospi- products on an assembly line. Even the most setts, New York, Washington, D.C., California, tals to its portfolio. basic supplies are not available when nurses Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Nevada, were all Nurses who work at those hospitals say need them; for example, bread, crackers, and members of National Nurses United.
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