Tell Prime Healthcare & East Liverpool City Hospital: Put Patients Before Profits
Prime Healthcare & East Liverpool City Hospital
Every patient deserves safe, high-quality care. Every nurse deserves the staffing and support needed to provide that care safely.
Prime Healthcare and East Liverpool City Hospital have allowed nursing vacancies to grow while bedside nurses continue to raise serious concerns about unsafe staffing conditions. Nurses have reported more than 100 unsafe patient care conditions this year alone, yet the warnings continue to go unheard.
Instead of confronting the staffing crisis, Prime Healthcare and the hospital are proposing contract changes that would make it harder to recruit and retain experienced bedside nurses. This is the wrong approach for our hospital, our community, and our patients.
When there are not enough nurses at the bedside:
- Patients face longer wait times and delayed care.
- Nurses are assigned more patients than can be safely managed.
- Experienced nurses leave, making the staffing crisis even worse.
- Patient safety is put at unnecessary risk.
Our community deserves better.
By signing this petition, I call on Prime Healthcare and East Liverpool City Hospital to:
- Enact enforceable safe staffing standards in the collective bargaining agreement.
- Prioritize patient and staff safety.
- Fill vacant nursing positions and invest in recruiting and retaining experienced bedside nurses.
- Listen to the nurses who provide direct patient care every day.
- Stop proposing contract changes that undermine nurse recruitment and retention.
- Work collaboratively with bedside nurses to build a safer hospital for patients, families, and healthcare workers.
Our hospital should put patients before profits. It's time for Prime Healthcare and East Liverpool City Hospital to listen to its nurses and invest in safe patient care.
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We are writing as nurses, health professionals, patients, and members of the community who believe every patient deserves safe, high-quality care and every healthcare worker deserves the support necessary to provide it.
Our hospital is facing an ongoing staffing crisis. Bedside nurses continue to report unsafe patient care conditions caused by chronic understaffing and excessive workloads. More than 100 unsafe patient care conditions have been documented this year alone, yet the concerns raised by the nurses providing direct patient care continue to go unaddressed.
Rather than taking meaningful action to strengthen the nursing workforce, Prime Healthcare and East Liverpool City Hospital are proposing contract changes that would make it even harder to recruit and retain experienced bedside nurses. At a time when hospitals across the country are competing for qualified nurses, weakening the protections that help attract and keep nurses is the wrong direction for our hospital and our community.
When nursing positions remain unfilled, the consequences are felt by everyone. Patients experience delays in care. Nurses are stretched beyond safe limits. Families worry whether their loved ones will receive the attention they need. The entire healthcare team bears the burden of a system operating without adequate staffing.
We urge Prime Healthcare and East Liverpool City Hospital to demonstrate their commitment to our community by working with bedside nurses to create lasting solutions.
Specifically, we ask Prime Healthcare and East Liverpool City Hospital to:
1. Enact enforceable safe staffing standards in the collective bargaining agreement.
2. Prioritize patient and staff safety over cost-cutting measures.
3. Fill vacant nursing positions and invest in recruiting and retaining experienced bedside nurses.
4. Listen to the nurses who provide direct patient care every day and include them in decisions that affect patient care.
Withdraw contract proposals that undermine nurse recruitment and retention.
Work collaboratively with nurses to build a stronger, safer hospital for patients, healthcare workers, and the community.
Our community depends on this hospital. Patients deserve safe care. Nurses deserve the resources they need to provide it.
We call on Prime Healthcare and East Liverpool City Hospital to put patients before profits by investing in safe staffing and partnering with the nurses who care for our community every day.