Home Health & Hospice Week
West Coast Home Health Nurses Vote To Strike
The battle over pay and other compensation continues at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Home Care Services in Oregon. After striking for two weeks in February (see HHHW by AAPC, Vol. XXXIII, No. 6), nurses have now voted to authorize an open-ended strike, the Oregon Nurses Association says. “It’s unbelievable that multimillionaire executives at a multibillion-dollar company have turned their back on their mission to serve and care for our community. Your nurses are fighting to hold PeaceHealth’s corporate executives accountable,” a nurse representative says in a release. “Despite multiple improved offers on our end, ONA has only increased their demands rather than attempting to find a middle ground,” PeaceHealth responds, according to press reports.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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West Coast Home Health Nurses Vote To Strike
The battle over pay and other compensation continues at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Home Care Services [...]
