The nursing staff and Lower Bucks Hospital ratified a new four-year
contract they negotiated with medical center owner Prime Healthcare Services.
The deal came following 11 months of negotiations between
the Nurse Association of Lower Bucks Hospital, a division of the Pennsylvania
Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Health Professionals, and the
for-profit hospital management company based in Ontario, Calif.
The nurses at Lower Bucks Hospital have a new four-year
deal.
The union, which represents 160 nurses at the Bristol
Township, Pa., hospital, said the new contract - ratified by a
"substantial majority" of the nursing staff - provides competitive
wage increases and a guaranteed retirement contributions.
The wage increases will total between 10 and 11 percent
over four years, according to union officials.
Retirement plan contributions, which stopped prior to
Prime Healthcare buying the hospital a few months after it emerged
from U.S. Bankruptcy Court Protection in 2012, will resume. Pension plan
payments were frozen during the bankruptcy proceedings that began in 2011.
Other details of the contract were not disclosed.
Prime Healthcare also operates Roxborough Memorial
Hospital in Philadelphia, and is in the process of acquiring Mercy Suburban
Hospital in East Norriton, Pa. That acquisition is expected to be finalized by
the end of the year.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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