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Join us for "As the Hospital Turns" on May 12Lifespan and Care NE drop merger plansAfter spending more than 2 1/2 years and $8 million in pursuit of a merger, Lifespan and Care NE announced on February 26 that they are abandoning their plans to become a single, seven-hospital system. In response, the UNAP commented that the decision reflects the public's increasing discomfort with large private corporations running essential public services like hospitals. In 2008, the UNAP conducted a survey of hundreds of health care workers throughout the State who expressed concerns about the impact that the giant merger could have on employee rights and benefits, patient services, unaffiliated community hospitals, and overall health care costs. Since then, the UNAP has consistently argued that before we let a single private company control 70% of our state’s hospital beds, we must make sure we have the public oversight necessary to ensure that their private business decisions are made in the public interest. To read more about Lifespan's announcement and UNAP's response, click here and here. As The Hospital Turns - A Search For Tomorrow's Nurse - May 12, 2010Come and share in this very special Dinner-Theater event to benefit the Children's Hospital Fund and in celebration of Nurses Week! This years Spring Fundraiser will be held at the beautiful Event Center at Twin River in Lincoln Rhode Island! Enjoy and support your *co-workers as they appear onstage - cast into the roles of hospital workers in an old time radio broadcast of: "As the Hospital Turns - A Search for Tomorrow's Nurse" -- A new play by Lisa Hayes and Suzanne Gordon. We are especially pleased to present this performance directed by Lisa Hayes, accomplished actor, playwright and educator best known for the plays Bedside Manners and Nurse! Earthquake in Haiti causes horrific devastation -- how to helpIn the aftermath of the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti the night of January 12, officials there are in the process of assessing the utter devastation, especially the area of Port Au Prince. A massive relief effort will require the efforts of many individuals and organizations. Here are a couple of ways that UNAP members can help: Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN) is a national network of direct-care RNs that coordinates sending volunteer RNs to disaster stricken areas wherever and whenever they are needed most. RNRN was organized in 2005 when Katrina and Rita — two of the most destructive hurricanes in history — dramatically exposed America's flawed disaster relief system. VOLUNTEER ONLINE HERE UNAP local president leads Vermont Health Care is a Human Right CampaignMORRISVILLE, VT – More than fifty Lamoille County residents braved frigid temperatures to participate in a People’s Forum on Healthcare with Vermont Speaker of the House Rep. Shap Smith (D-Morrisville), Rep. Floyd Nease (D-Johnson) and State Senator Susan Bartlett (D-Lamoille County). This forum was the ninth of its kind scheduled in recent weeks by the Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign (HCHR), a statewide grassroots organizing effort coordinated by the Vermont Workers’ Center (VWC) which aims to change what is politically possible in health reform in Vermont. The event including testimony from local residents who have been negatively affected by the healthcare crisis and explored the how Vermont can establish healthcare as a basic human right and win single-payer healthcare in 2010. “We believe that healthcare is not a commodity but a public good shared by all,” said Susan Lucas, RN, VWC leader and president of the nurses union at Copley Hospital. “No one should have to forgo needed care because of costs.”  |