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About a dozen vehicles with nurses from Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital caravanned through Valencia Friday morning to protest increased nurse-to-patients staffing ratios due to the COVID-19 surge, which they say puts patients at risk.
The hospital is among several in California that was granted last month a temporary expedited waiver from the state Department of Public Health to bump up the number of patients nurses in intensive care units can oversee at one time.
Hospital officials said Friday they are hiring staff and are offering competitive salaries and benefits, as well as incentives to current clinical employees to work extra shifts. In response to the demonstration, officials said the issue is not unique to Henry Mayo.
Henry Mayo Nurses Hold Car Parade To Protest Nurse-To-Patient Staffing Ratios
Registered nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital held a car parade on Friday to protest the hospital’s use of a state waiver to allow higher nurse-to-patient ratios during the coronavirus pandemic.
The nurses are urging Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital to staff for safe patient care, and not use the pandemic as an excuse to put patients at serious risk, according to California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU), a union representing nearly 700 nurses at Henry Mayo.
On Dec. 11, California officials announced the state would allow hospitals to submit “expedited waivers” that will let them dramatically increase nurses’ workloads.