Nurses Union Says State Watchdog Does Not Adequately Investigate Staffing Crisis

Pediatric nurses at the UC Davis Medical Center say they are in the midst of a staffing crisis, a claim the health system flatly denies. Nurses at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center report severe overcrowding and patients sometimes placed in hallways in the emergency department for days, which UCLA says it has received waivers from the state to allow.

Neither concern has been addressed to nurses’ satisfaction at the local level. That’s not uncommon; it’s one reason they’re represented by a union. But when the union and the hospitals still can’t agree on the issues, the cases escalate to the state level.

That’s where it gets fuzzy.

On Tuesday in Sacramento, members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United rallied in front of the offices of the California Department of Public Health, or CDPH. The union, which represents nearly 20,000 nurses in the University of California system, wants more transparency from the giant state agency when it comes to investigations of their complaints — complaints, nurses say, that still aren’t being adequately addressed. (Disclosure: CNA is a financial supporter of Capital & Main.)
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