Home Care Nurses Standing Up to PeaceHealth’s Cuts
PeaceHealth executives in Washington are abandoning local patients and putting their own profits ahead of patients’ needs … AGAIN. From heartlessly closing University District–leaving Eugene without a hospital–to handing corporate executives multimillion dollar raises during the pandemic, PeaceHealth’s corporate executives are cutting your health care again so they can cash in.
Thankfully, your local ONA nurses at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Home Care Services are standing up to fight back!
Read more about the strike authorization vote here. See Speaker Fahey's letter to PeaceHealth here, and the Sacred Heart Medical Center PNCC's letter of support.
Tell PeaceHealth’s millionaire corporate executives you support local nurses and local health care and want a fair deal for home health and hospice nurses who care for our community’s most vulnerable residents! Click here to write today!
Sacred Heart Home Care Nurses, who are out on strike, will experience an immediate financial strain...it will also cost them additional funds to participate in the picket line! That’s why ONA is seeking donations for the Sacred Heart Home Care Strike Relief Fund - to help our members during this time of need.Click here to support striking nurses!
Lookout Here to Sign Up for a Strike Shift
We need you to man the line! Days consist of three different four-hour shifts with the earliest one starting at 7 a.m. and the latest ending at 7 p.m., Monday - Friday. Let's start strong and keep it up! Click here to sign up!
In their latest move to cut care, PeaceHealth executives allowed local home care and hospice nurses’ contract to expire in April 2023 and are refusing to offer home care nurses equitable compensation. This has forced many local nurses to leave home care services—threatening patients’ care, delaying admissions, and placing an unfair burden on the nurses left behind, who must take on even more work.
PeaceHealth’s low-ball offers and inequitable compensation has led almost a quarter of home care nurses to quit and a staggering one-third of SHHCS nurses are planning to leave in the next year if this contract isn’t resolved equitably.
These essential home care and hospice nurses provide vital medical and end-of-life care to Lane County residents and can’t be easily replaced!
PeaceHealth executives continued refusal to pay home care nurses equitably–offering home care nurses less than both PeaceHealth hospital nurses and other similar home health agencies–will lead to more nurses leaving and more patients and families waiting for essential care that will never come.
You can make a difference!
ONA home care and hospice nurses in Lane County are fighting for a fair contract that respects home care nurses. Together we can reach an agreement that allows us to recruit and retain nurses who meet patients wherever their home is and provide sick and dying individuals the healing, dignity and freedom they can’t get anywhere else!
Sign local nurses’ petition and join us in standing up to PeaceHealth’s corporate executives and demanding a fair contract that helps local nurses meet vulnerable patients’ needs!
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