Mission nurses ratify contract; deal includes 7% wage increase in first year
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Mission registered nurses have voted to ratify their first union contract.
The three-year deal is expected to “provide significant improvements for patient care protections and enhanced standards that promote retention of experienced RNs and recruitment of new nurses,” according to a press release from National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United.
The NNOC-NC, which represents 1,800 registered nurses at Mission, announced a tentative agreement July 1, with plans for nurses to vote on ratifying it July 1 and 2. The vote was announced July 3.
“Our new contract is a huge step forward for nurses, patients, and our entire community,” said RN Sue Fischer, a member of the bargaining team.”
Mission nurses ratify contract; deal includes 7% wage increase in first year
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Through a year of COVID-19 pandemic challenges and in the face of a national nurses shortage, along with local doctors leaving Mission, HCA Healthcare in North Carolina is still going strong, according to Greg Lowe, president of HCA Healthcare North Carolina.
Lowe updated the Council of Independent Business Owners on everything the hospital system has been doing over the past year at the group s May 7 meeting.
Over the past year and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the system has conducted 51,000 telehealth encounters and more than 2.1 million patient encounters.
There are 24 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at Mission Hospital in Asheville, he said, and a total 32 system-wide as of May 7.