RNS from Chicago VA and Cook County Facilitions protest a significant reduction in the strength plan
The National Committee for the Regulatory of the UN Nurses (NNOC/NNU) announced today that the nurses registered in Chicago from the Jesse Brown Medical Center, VA Hines Health Care, and Captain James A. Lover Feder Healthcare Center will join the Secretary of the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs confirmed what has done It was reported for the first time in a leakage note, that the administration is looking to reduce between 72,000 to 80,000 workers from the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs.
“We know that VA is the best place for old warriors to receive care, and we need to make sure that we have the resources and employees available to provide high -quality and therapeutic care for all the heroes who need and want it,” said Carolina Stewart, a registered nurse working as a home health nurse. “We are already witnessing a shortage of auxiliary nurses and employees, which impedes our ability to provide safe and effective care for our old warriors, threats to care for patients. Jesse Brown and other VAS suffers from increased work burden due to the employment crisis.
from: VA RNS and employees, Cook County, registered nurses, and work allies
What: A gathering to demand the end of employment discounts in the Ministry of Affairs of the Veterans
when: Friday, 28 March noon until 1 pm
where: Jesse Brown VA, 820 S. Damen Ave. , Chicago, Ill.
Combined at the Damen Ave. And polyk st.
The Secretary of the Ministry of Affairs of the Veterans Doug Collins said that the goal of the discounts is to restore employment levels from VA to 2019. However, this goal is much lower than well -documented employment needs, as the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs announced last March that about 400,000 veterans registered in the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs in the previous year alone. Nurses know that employment levels in the Ministry of Affairs of Veterans should increase with the growth of the qualified veteran population.
Cutting tens of thousands of employees will be destroyed for patient care, as the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs has already been postponed. According to the Inspector General's report in August 2024, 82 percent of VA facilities have a severe deficiency in nursing.
Despite the employment levels, the nurses continue to do everything in their power to provide the highest quality of care for old warriors, and studies continue to highlight the high -quality care that the old warriors receive through the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs. A study published in 2023 found that the veterans who were transferred to the hospital in the VA system had a significant 30 -day death rate of heart failure and stroke compared to those in other VA facilities. A 2022 study found that death rates are much lower for the old warriors who were treated in VA emergency rooms compared to the old warriors treated in other hospitals.
The nurses realize that the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs is currently facing an existential threat as a result of the private sector sector wandering in billions of dollars in the system. The analysis of the “Red Team” round for VA about VA spending on private sector sponsorship increased to 30 billion dollars in the fiscal year 2023. The authors pointed to the cost of this private sector care “for erosion (threatened) by the direct VA system.
“We know that the old warriors want to look at him in the Ministry of Affairs of the Old Warriors because they know that care is specialized in their needs,” said Heather Fallon, a nurse registered in the intensive care unit at Captain James Loville Federal Health Care. “But our employees do not keep pace with the needs of our warriors. In our facility, we have seen waiting times in the emergency room growing greatly, and patients are kept in the emergency room for hours, and sometimes days, because no one is available to employees in the units.”
Fallon said: “We see chaos and uncertainty resulting from this current administration, and we fear what it will mean to employ and keep the nurses in the Ministry of Affairs of the Old Warriors.” “We must respect our warriors with the respect of those who care about them, so that we can ensure that our warriors have the highest quality of care they promised.”
NNOC/NNU represents nearly 2000 nurses registered in VA facilities in the Chicago area.
The Organizing Committee for National Nurses is one of the companies affiliated with the United National nurses, and it is the largest and fastest union union and a professional association for registered nurses in the United States with more than 225,000 members in the country. The NNU companies also include the California Nurses Association, the Nurses Association in the capital, the Michigan Nurses Association, the Minnesota Nurses Association, and the Nurses Association in New York State.
