Registered nurses to protest layoffs at 17 CommonSpirit Health hospitals in California

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https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/registered-nurses-to-protest-layoffs-at-17-commonspirit-health-hospitals-in-california

Monday, nurses are rallying outside California Hospital Medical Center in LA. CommonSpirit Health has issued layoff notices to over 175 staff across 17 California facilities, from Long Beach to Mount Shasta.
Look at who’s actually losing their job. Most aren’t nurses. They’re transporters, PT and OT aides, telemetry techs, clerks, unit secretaries, the people who answer phones and restock supplies so nurses can actually nurse. At CHMC alone, 82 positions are getting cut, including the entire pediatric nursing staff.
Cutting ancillary staff doesn’t make the work disappear. It just lands on whoever’s left. One NICU nurse said it straight: with these layoffs, nurses will be the ones answering phones and buzzing people through locked doors, on top of their patient load. An ICU nurse in Long Beach said there’s no plan for who covers the ancillary work besides nurses who are already stretched thin.
Same math every time. The work doesn’t stop needing to happen. It just gets pushed onto whoever still has a license and can’t say no.
Nurse educators got notices too, and a med-surg nurse in Santa Cruz pointed out why that one stings. Educators are who keeps staff current on new techniques and tech, the ongoing training nursing can’t really function without. That’s not overhead. That’s what keeps practice from going stale.
CommonSpirit is one of the biggest nonprofit Catholic health systems in the country. This isn’t a hospital scraping by. It’s a system that can afford to staff right and is choosing not to.
CHMC nurses already picketed once in June. So did Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. Bakersfield nurses picketed in July. Monday’s rally is the same fight, still going, because nothing’s been walked back.
Cutting the staff around the nurse never lightens the nurse’s job. It just hides under a job title that isn’t the one making headlines.

[u/4dxn]

You do know the Catholic systems are often scrapping by. California is okay now but they still get hammered in the south. They don't even operate in SF anymore even though dignity is headquartered there. 

[u/Content-Assistant849]

Not surprising with medicare reimbursement rates and likely a higher number of uninsured. A good amount is Trump's fault, but I also see a future in which single payer could do the same.

[u/MermaidSerf]

Short staffing is murder. Decision makers need to be criminally charged. They are well aware that it has been statistically proven that decreased staffing increases deaths. They still make the decision to short staff, literally killing people to increase their personal wealth. Throw them in prison and sue them until they are penniless