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Resources
HPAE White Paper – The Christie Administration’s Department of Health: Failure in Enforcement, Accountability and Transparency
The health care landscape has changed dramatically in the past decade, driven by reimbursement changes, hospital consolidations, health reform, and hospital and health system competition. In New Jersey, financially vulnerable hospitals have reduced services and staff, gone through bankruptcy or closed, undergone
HPAE White Paper – Meadowlands Hospital and the State of New Jersey: Failures of Oversight Put Profits Before Patients at a Community Hospital
The accelerated introduction of for-profit hospitals in New Jersey over the past five years presents a challenge for patient care advocates, state legislators, government regulators, consumers and health professionals. The availability, quality and affordability of health care in our communities
HPAE White Paper – The Reorganization of UMDNJ: GETTING IT RIGHT
On January 25, 2012, the University ofMedicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Advisory Committee released their final report regarding the reorganization of medical higher education in New Jersey.While we hope that restructuring will have a positive impact on the health, education and
HPAE White Paper – Protecting Our Nation’s Blood Supply and Defending the Rights of Blood Service Workers
Our union, Local 5103 of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees, AFT, AFL-CIO (HPAE) representing Registered Nurses and Donor Collection Assistants are in the midst of a labor dispute with our employer, the American Red Cross Blood Services Division, Penn-Jersey
Committee on Political Education (COPE)
HPAE members formed the Committee on Political Education (COPE) to educate our elected officials about what is really going on in the health care system - and to fight for change. COPE organizes grass-roots mobilization efforts to win important legislation
Scholarships for HPAE Members and Their Dependents
HPAE is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a national union with over 1 million members. In addition, HPAE participates in many central labor councils throughout New Jersey and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both the AFT and the central
HPAE White Paper – Setting the Standards
While some might consider New Jersey’s health care environment highly-regulated, in reality, control over quality, staffing and the allocation of precious healthcare dollars is largely in the hands of individual hospitals, operating in a competitive environment, and accountable more to
Professional Resources
Links to state and federal resources that are important for nurses and other health professionals.