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Calls for more safety measures to counter violence against NJ hospital staff
While recent state-specific data is hard to find, hospitals here reported nearly 10,000 violent incidents in 2021, up nearly 15% from 2019, according to an industry report issued last year.
Support the nurses’ strike: They need more help
We are facing a national crisis in healthcare: Tens of thousands of frontline nurses have fled the profession, and those left behind say they are burnt out and fed up with chronic understaffing at their hospitals.
HPAE endorses Safe-Staffing Candidates in 2023 Elections
As we head into this fall’s elections, with all 120 seats in the New Jersey legislature up this year, HPAE has made support for safe staffing legislation a key indicator for endorsement of candidates.
HPAE Statement in Solidarity with Striking RWJUH Union Nurses
HPAE nurses and healthcare workers stand in solidarity with our USW4-200 nursing colleagues, at RWJUH, in the important fight for safe staffing. Hospital executives must not continue their short-sighted practice of down staffing to save money.
HPAE statement on NJEDA study of University Hospital’s Master Plan
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) did not flinch from the scope of challenges facing University Hospital in Newark and the need for critical upgrades and outright replacement of parts of the infrastructure in its study of a Master