Critical update

february 2023 issue

Since our last newsletter, we’ve won truly momentous victories for our patients and for each other. At ACMH in Western Pennsylvania and at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, nurses, professionals, and technical specialists came together to force their hospitals to do right by their patients and their caregivers, winning transformational contracts for each local. In Scranton, 450 professionals and technical specialists at Geisinger Community Medical Center voted to join their GCMC RN colleagues and unionize with PASNAP! And the CRNAs who practice under the sprawling Temple Health System umbrella at Jeanes Hospital and Fox Chase Cancer Center won their very first contract, joining the 360-plus nurses at Jeanes and the 2,250 nurses and allied professionals at Temple Main who are also represented by PASNAP. COVID hasn’t disappeared, and the crisis in our hospitals continues. But we have so much to celebrate and so many reasons to hope.