Hospitals and “merger mania”. Latest brings unanimous strike vote from nurses.
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As two large, Catholic hospital chains—St. Joseph Health and Providence Health and Services—celebrate their official merger last week, nurses at three of the chains’ California hospitals marked the alliance with a strike vote. RN, Susan Johnson say’s nurses are concerned about the reduction in vital patient services, chronic understaffing and major cuts to nurses healthcare and other benefits. ALL seem to be patterns when hospitals merge.
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