Campaign for Patient Safety at Catholic Health!
Catholic Health
Healthcare workers at Catholic Health Hospitals in Western New York - including Mercy, St. Josephs, and Kenmore - have spent the past 18 months tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, working longer hours and harder than ever before - but the problems of understaffing began long before March of 2020, and will continue beyond this current crisis. COVID-19 has simply made it more clear: when healthcare workers must care for more patients than they can safely handle, workers and patients are at risk.
But Catholic Health is using the pandemic as an opportunity to cut our staffing, resources, and worker benefits to the bone. Healthcare workers repeatedly work short across the three hospitals. Housekeepers have double the rooms to clean. Nurses and aides are seeing assaults on the rise, without enough staff to respond.
Enough is enough.
Please sign the petition to tell Catholic Health: Protect Healthcare Workers & Our Patients!
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Catholic Health Healthcare workers have spent the past 18 months tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, working longer hours and harder than ever before - but the problems of understaffing began long before March of 2020, and will continue beyond this current crisis. COVID-19 has simply made it more starkly clear than ever: when healthcare workers must care for more patients than they can safely handle, both patients and workers are at risk.
Healthcare workers repeatedly work short across the three hospitals. Housekeepers have double the rooms to clean. Nurses and aides are seeing assaults on the rise, without enough staff to respond.
We must do everything we can to improve the safety and quality of our healthcare centers.
CWA members at Mercy, St. Josephs, and Kenmore Hospitals are fighting to turn the lessons of the COVID-19 crisis into meaningful change that will improve patient care and the overall health and strength of our communities. The healthcare heroes that carried Western New York through this crisis deserve more than just nice words of appreciation - we deserve:
-Safe staffing ratios
-No concessions
-Competitive wages to recruit and retain staff
-A master contract to unite workers at three hospitals and raise standards
We strongly urge you to bargain in good faith and settle a fair contract!