FORT MYERS---Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has filed official complaints with federal and state agencies against Consulate Heritage Park Care & Rehabilitation Center in Fort Myers for a “blatant disregard” of Covid-19 safety practices, putting the facility’s caregivers and patients at “high risk” of the deadly virus.
We are proud to endorse candidates who will fight for a healthy and equitable District of Columbia. We must elect representatives who will organize with us to build a city that works for working families.
This week is dedicated to you, and we are excited to share some special events designed to help you connect with other nurses nationwide, and also relax and recharge.
I am an orthopedic surgical nurse at University Hospital and Medical Center in Tamarac, FL, and simply doing my job could be fatal. It’s not just that some healthcare professionals who contract Coronavirus get sicker than other patients. It’s that my diabetes puts me at an especially high risk. And yet, I continue to don my scrubs and stethoscope and report to the hospital. My patients who are recovering from surgeries are particularly vulnerable right now, and I’m not going to let them down.
As you may have heard, beginning May 6th at 1 am, New York City Transit subway service will shut down from 1 am to 5 am for cleaning and disinfecting of trains. Trains will be replaced by buses, running every 20-30 minutes on major routes.
One of every four Filipinos in the New York-New Jersey area is employed in the health care industry. With at least 30 worker deaths and many more family members lost to the coronavirus, a community at the epicenter of the pandemic has been left reeling.
Miramar—In the midst of a widespread shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the state’s largest healthcare union has facilitated a donation of 20,000 KN95 masks that will be distributed to long-term care facilities across the state.
MIAMI----Two months into the COVID-19 crisis and with the numbers of confirmed cases spiking in the state’s long-term care (LTC) facilities, nursing home workers still are facing dangerous shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) and a lack of information from employers while they care for Floridians most vulnerable to the highly contagious virus.
Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has called on the state government to better protect nursing home residents and caregivers as the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak surges across the state. Patients and workers at long-term care facilities face special risks against the highly contagious virus.
Montefiore Nyack Hospital on Wednesday celebrated the discharge of its 400th patient who has recovered from COVID-19 since the hospital began treating people for the virus.