Nurses at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center voted 189 to
129 to join the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied
Professionals.
The 347 nurses at the western Montgomery County hospital
are the fifth group of nurses to join PASNAP this year. Earlier this year,
registered nurses at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Hahnemann
University Hospital, Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia and Delaware County
Memorial Hospital also joined the same union.
“Nurses and other healthcare professionals are clearly
sending the message that their hospital’s priorities, and resources, must shift
immediately to the bedside and to patient care,” said Bill Cruice, executive
director of PASNAP, which represents about 8,000 nurses and allied health
professionals statewide.
Pottstown Memorial Medical Center is owned by Community
Health Systems, a for-profit hospital management company based in Franklin,
Tennessee.
The hospital, in a statement, said: "We are
committed to continuing in a productive, mutually beneficial and respectful
relationship with all of our employees."
The Pottstown nurses, according to union officials, began
organizing themselves in late April because of concerns about staffing levels,
broken equipment, inadequate training and below market wages, and employee
health insurance.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
Source: Philadelphia Business Journal
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