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Media Advisory
Pediatric Nurses Will Picket Children’s Hospitals

 

Minnesota Nurses Association

Media Advisory

Pediatric Nurses Will Picket Children’s Hospitals

Nurses Fearful Patients Unable to Receive Care


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:  Rick Fuentes
(o) 651-414-2863
(c) 612-741-0662

rick.fuentes@mnnurses.org
 

Lauren Nielsen
(o) 651-414-2862
(c) 651-376-9709

lauren.nielsen@mnnurses.org

 

(St. Paul) – June 3, 2021 – Nurse members of the Minnesota Nurses Association have filed a ten-day notice to picket outside Children’s Hospitals Minneapolis and Saint Paul campuses to fight for enough staffing and enough beds for pediatric patients.

MNA nurses have been meeting with Children’s management over several months since the corporation launched a downsizing of its Saint Paul hospital and a redesign for the Minneapolis campus. Since then, nurses at both hospitals have been let go and some services have been shifted to Minneapolis. The situation has left both hospital campuses critically short-staffed and without enough beds to admit patients.

Children’s is taking away services from the sickest kids served in the St. Paul hospital while placing more of a burden on the already strapped resources of the Minneapolis campus,” said Tricia Ryshkus, Registered Nurse at Children’s Minneapolis. “And now what’s happening is kids are waiting for care and it’s increasing health inequities for all of these kids.”

“The kids are sicker and need more care,” said Sydney Pederson, RN at Children’s Saint Paul. “Our patients need access to the care they need when they need it, regardless of where they live.”

 

When:      Tuesday, June 8, 6-8am 

Where:    Outside Minneapolis campus of Children’s Hospital
                2525 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404

When:      Tuesday, June 8, 4-6pm

Where:    Outside St. Paul campus of Children’s Hospital 
                345 North Smith Ave, St. Paul, MN 55102

Who:        Pediatric nurses and members of MNA

What:     Informational Picket

Why:      To address short staffing and lack of access to care for patients

Note:  This event is not a work stoppage. All participants will be on their off-hours. Patient care will not be impacted by this event.

 
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About MNA:

With more than 22,000 members in Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, MNA is the leading organization for registered nurses in the Midwest and is among the oldest and largest representatives of RNs for collective bargaining in the nation.  Established in 1905, MNA is a multi-purpose organization that fosters high standards for nursing education and practice, and works to advance the profession through legislative activity.  MNA is an affiliate of National Nurses United.

About NNU:

National Nurses United, with close to 185,000 members in every state, is the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in U.S. history.

NNU was founded in 2009 unifying three of the most active, progressive organizations in the U.S.—and the major voices of unionized nurses—in the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, United American Nurses, and Massachusetts Nurses Association.
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