🚨 They Rush to the Scene — Now They’re Fighting to Be Seen 🚨
UCMC is blocking frontline emergency nurses from joining the union. And it’s putting patients at risk.

When your loved one is in crisis, the Mobile Care nurses at University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UCMC) are the first to respond. They provide lifesaving care in motion — stabilizing patients in critical moments before they ever reach a hospital bed. They run to danger so others can survive.

Now, they’re in a different kind of emergency — fighting to be heard and respected by their own employer.

These nine Mobile Care nurses voted overwhelmingly to unionize with Ohio Nurses Association (ONA)/AFT and join RNA — the local representing 1,800 of their fellow UCMC nurses. They’re not asking for special treatment — just to be added to the existing contract, the same one that already covers their Air Care colleagues.

But UCMC is refusing. Instead, they’re trying to divide this team — dragging them through a costly legal battle rather than agreeing to a simple, common-sense solution.

💸 UCMC is spending thousands of patient care dollars a day on corporate attorneys
📉 while cutting vital community services like the Daniel Drake Center
📉 and watching their bond rating sink to junk status.

This isn’t about what’s best for patients. It’s about control.

Would Rob Wiehe — UCMC’s CFO — ever roll up his sleeves in an emergency? Or would he be too worried about wrinkling his custom suit to lower himself to provide care or show real compassion?

He’ll never have to hold a dying patient’s hand. But he has no problem collecting a bloated salary off the backs of the very nurses he refuses to support — nurses whose voices are essential to safe staffing, rapid response, and the kind of care every patient deserves. If he had to hold the hand of a dying patient or console a grieving loved one, maybe he wouldn’t be so selfish and would finally prioritize care over profits.

This is the problem with healthcare today: Decisions about patient care are being made by people who care more about protecting profits than protecting lives.

When we came to the table with a proposal that would save time, money, and allow all of us to focus on caring for patients, UCMC’s attorney told us we should “just accept all their proposals” — proposals that would only reinforce the very problems that led these nurses to organize in the first place.

💥 This fight is about more than nine nurses. It’s about standing up for the people who show up for us in our darkest moments. It’s about demanding accountability from a hospital system that puts profits and power over care and community.

✊ These nurses have earned their voice.

🖊️ Send a letter today and tell UCMC: Mobile Care belongs in RNA.

Respect the vote. Respect the nurses. Protect patient care.