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Nurses Raise Battle Cry Over Reimbursement

Their rates fell statewide without Legislative fix last year
January 23, 2012 -- Kathy Moon, a nurse practitioner at Dunes Family Health Care, is one of the lucky ones whose practice hasn’t closed down or had to slash services because nurses now make less for performing the same functions as physicians. Read More >>

St. Charles Redmond Nurses Vote in Favor of Contract

January 24, 2011 -- The nurses at St. Charles Redmond voted in favor of ratifying their three-year Oregon Nurses Association contract Thursday. Read More >>

Razor Thin Union Election at St. Charles Still in Question

St. Charles ratifies nurses contract with ONA in Redmond while SEIU alleges anti-union intimidation in Bend
January 12, 2011 – Hospital executives at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend and Redmond have had a tough go lately with the unions. Read More >>

Department of Labor Rules in Favor of Local Nurses Union

The ruling came down a year after a complaint had been filed by the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals Local 5017
August 25, 2010 -- Justice came too late for a group of nurses and health professionals who were ousted from their union in July 2009. Read More >>

Nurses Reach Tentative Agreement with St. Charles

Agreement gives nurses a 3.5 percent increase over the next two years
July 29, 2010 -- St. Charles Health System and the Oregon Nurses Association have reached a tentative agreement on a two-year contract for the St. Charles Bend nurses giving them a 3.5 percent pay increase. Read More >>

Retired Doc Fears Burnout for New Recruits

Where are the doctors, nurses and medical staff to be found for these 32 million people?
June 16, 2010 -- Perhaps our government expects the medical profession to reorder its established patient-doctor relationship while expanding the present physician workload to accommodate 32 million more people who now lack full care. Read More >>

Monitoring Program to Combine Health Professions

The controversial rehabilitation programs that came under fire for protecting their own will be replaced by one consolidated program
January 28, 2010 -- Medical licensing boards in Oregon will no longer operate their own substance abuse and mental health monitoring programs beginning in July. Read More >>

Union Rules Own Takeover Legit Despite Federal Probe

U.S. Department of Labor has final say based on a formal complaint
October 21, 2009 -- The American Federation of Teachers is maintaining its grip on the 3,000 nurses and health professionals who work for Kaiser Permanente and Providence Milwaukie Hospital following a four-month investigation. Read More >>

AFT Union Takes Over Local Healthcare Branch

As local leaders discuss breaking affiliation, national AFT union alleges violations and seizes control
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August 20, 2009 -- After seizing control of a local union representing 3,200 healthcare workers in early July, the American Federation of Teachers insists the takeover was warranted. But tensions still remain high among the deposed leaders and show no signs of abating. Read More >>

Nurse Staffing Effort Dies Amid Union Squabble

The fight for nurse-to-patient staffing ratios suffered another defeat at the Oregon legislature because two unions couldn't agree
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July 1, 2009 -- For the second legislative session in a row, the state’s two largest nurses unions failed to see eye to eye on the need for specific nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals. Read More >>
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