HPAE. Putting Care First.

HPAE WHITE PAPER - JULY 2020

In a new HPAE report, “Exposed & At-Risk,” union members offer real-time first-hand accounts of caring for patients on the COVID-19 pandemic frontlines while battling employers for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other resources to do their life-saving work.

Coronavirus: What you need to know

Information about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak is ‘an emerging, rapidly evolving situation’ with the CDC issuing new updates several times a week. Keep up with the latest updates concerning the virus as well state and federal resources to help you better understand how it may affect you at your place of work.

Coronavirus Resource Page

HPAE. Putting Care First.

COVID-19: Members in Memoriam

As frontline healthcare workers, all HPAE members are valiantly serving, protecting, caring for, and healing patients during this unprecedented time, with little concern for themselves. For those who have lost their lives in the line of duty due to COVID-19, we, as your sisters and brothers in the HPAE family, honor you here.

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Featured News

Essential workers who have coronavirus get help with benefits (video)

Sep 17 2020

During the health emergency, essential workers no longer have to prove they contracted the coronavirus on the job to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits. Gov. Phil Murphy signed it into law Monday, retroactive to March 9.

HPAE President Debbie White, RN, thanks Gov. Murphy for signing into law Workers’ Compensation Reform for Essential Workers who Contract COVID-19

Sep 14 2020

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers who were exposed, infected and sickened by the virus faced an additional worry: whether they would qualify for workers' compensation benefits.

Testimony of President Debbie White, RN, before the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, September 2020

Sep 11 2020

Many of HPAE’s FY2021 revised budget priorities are based on the concerns and needs brought to light by the State’s experience with the COVID-19 pandemic over the past six months.