The famous blogger and gossip columnist Perez Hilton went to Interfaith Medical Center last week to watch the 'The Death of Bessie Smith' - and he tweeted about it to his 6 million followers!
Here's what he said:"Theater AND activism! http://instagram.com/p/jAuACOoajV/ Happy to watch and support! #Brooklyn #InterfaithMedicalCenter"
Six million people just heard about our fight to keep Interfaith #Open4Care!!!
The play was also mentioned in Playbill, the widely-read theater magazine. Click here to read the story.
NYS State and the Feds: Make sure money goes to hospitals that are truly serving low-income and uninsured people
There are longstanding inequities in how hospitals have been funded through past Medicaid waivers and other decisions. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the closure of 19 hospitals in New York City, with many of those closings occurring in low-income, immigrant, and communities of color. Financial distress has been one of the major causes of these closures. We need to make sure that our hospitals are adequately and fairly funded.
Please sign the moveon.org petition created by our allies at CPHS and spread the word!
New Brooklyn Theater will perform “The Death of Bessie Smith” at Interfaith Medical Center. The play centers on a black woman who is refused care at an all-white hospital. This is an important artistic project about healthcare inequality that will take place at a hospital threatened with closure that serves low-income patients of color. The play will begin performances Thursday, January 9, 2014 and run through Sunday, January 19.
Tickets are free, but there is limited availability, so don’t delay. Click here to get your tickets now!
The RNs at Carthage Area Hospital have scheduled an informational picket for Jan. 27 from 3:30 - 5:00 PM in front of the hospital.
The nurses are taking our fight public to protect our patients and to ensure that experienced nurses continue to work at CAH and provide very best care to members of the community.
Reminder to Carthage RNs: Come to our meeting on Jan. 23 at the Church of the Nazarene at 960 State St. in Carthage from 5:30-8:30 PM to make picket signs and gear up for this union action.
NYSNA’s HHC Executive Council President Anne Bové sent a welcome plaque on behalf of the Bellevue Hospital Center RNs in New York City to our newest NYSNA members at Bellevue Woman's Center!
In a story for the Daily Gazette, L.D. Davidson points to the diminishing power of the middle class and growing income inequality as the reasons workers need the protection of unions now more than ever. Nurses at Bellevue were being forced to take on 10 patients at once and endure unilateral changes from management with no voice in patient care. That’s why they voted to join NYSNA.
We are making our NYSNA one strong, united voice for patient care and nursing practice. Join your fellow nurses at these upcoming Inter-Regional Meetings to find out how to get involved in our campaigns for quality patient care and good contracts. Contact your NYSNA delegate or rep today to let us know you’re coming to one of these important meetings!
On New Year’s Day, NYSNA leaders attended the inaugurations of Mayor Bill de Blasio, Public Advocate Tish James, and Comptroller Scott Stringer, all of whom we endorsed because of their commitment to strengthening and expanding our public hospital system and protecting vital community hospitals. NYSNA played a pivotal role in electing these progressive patient advocates and we look forward to working together to build a better New York for our patients, and to holding these newly elected leaders accountable.
RNs at Bellevue Woman's Center voted overwhelmingly to join our union!
"I am so proud to become a NYSNA member," said Chris McCann, a nursery RN, when she announced the results at a victory party.
“This election is a great victory for nurses, our patients, and our entire community,” said Christine Walthers, Bellevue RN and a leader of the organizing drive. “We decided to join NYSNA after management started to make changes to how we care for our patients – without consulting us. Nurses and our patients need a voice in healthcare. NYSNA is that voice.”
