Show your support for local nurses at Providence Medford Medical Center (PMMC), who have been working for months to reach a contract agreement with the hospital that ensures our community members receive safe, appropriate health care.

Your local nurses are members of the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) and have already volunteered hundreds of hours to try to reach a fair contract agreement with the hospital. Despite our best efforts, we have been unable to reach a mutual agreement and nurses have been working without a contract for more than 3 months.

We're asking you to help us make progress to recruit and retain the local nurses we need to fix hospital problems and provide the high-quality, community-based care you deserve.

Add your name to the petition
to show you support local nurses and want to improve our community's health care.

The main component of high-quality care is having enough trained staff. In recent years, we’ve seen more than 50 percent turnover in our nursing staff, leading to understaffed units, overworked nurses. When there aren’t enough nurses, patient care suffers.

Nurses are focused on reaching a fair contract agreement that allows us to retain outstanding nurses, recruit additional help, and ensure nurses and hospital staff have:

- Appropriate backup so nurses can safely take their legally-required ½ hour meal break during 12-hour shifts and know their patients are being cared for.

- Adequate training and orientation for staff before being floated to new units.

- Competitive compensation that recognizes health care providers who have advanced education, training and specialized skills.

- Consistent, predictable schedules so nurses can maintain a work/life balance and participate in our family life and our communities.

Add your name to the petition to show
you support local nurses and want to improve our community's health care.