For over 100 days, hundreds of nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts have been striking for safe staffing levels — a critical policy that sets limits on how many patients one nurse can care for.
Even though safe staffing ratios are proven to protect nurses, patients, and the community, Tenet Healthcare (the owner of the hospital and notorious healthcare profiteer with nearly 600 facilities nationwide), just announced that it will begin hiring permanent replacements for the striking nurses instead of meeting their demands.
This cannot stand.
Tenet knows this fight is bigger than one hospital. The brave nurses at St. Vincent Hospital are challenging Tenet's profit-driven, dangerous, and exploitative business model — a model that simply would not be possible in a Medicare for All system.
Medicare for All would put an end to profit-driven, dangerous, and exploitative actions like those by Tenet. Instead, federal nurse-to-patient ratios would be ensured across the country by law, and hospitals would not be able to pocket billions of dollars by putting nurses and patients at risk.
We cannot allow Tenet to ignore these brave nurses, and today, they need our support now more than ever.
You'll hear from nurses on the picket line and learn how you can help #TakeOnTenet in your community. You’ll even hear from our very own Deborah Burger, President of NNU, who will be speaking about the importance of showing solidarity across the country for these nurses. Register and show your support for the nurses of St. Vincent today.
It takes a lot of courage to do what the St. Vincent’s Hospital nurses are doing — and tomorrow’s virtual town hall is an opportunity to show them that we have their back.
Join us tomorrow and let’s #TakeOnTenet together!
Jasmine Ruddy
Organizer
Nurses' Campaign for Medicare for All
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