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Nurses picket Duluth, Twin Cities hospitals seeking new contracts that prioritize patient safety

“Unsafe staffing levels are hurting our patients. Nurses know it. Patients know it. And hospital executives know it. But those same executives continue to prioritize profits over safe patient care.” -- Megan Finnegan, RN at Aspirus-St. Luke’s in Duluth

Nurses plan to picket Duluth hospitals to demand action on staffing crisis

“Patients are facing longer waits, and overworked staff are facing dangerous conditions. Nurses are taking action because our healthcare system cannot afford more delays or excuses. It’s time to put patients before profits.” -- Chris Rubesch, RN, President of the Minnesota Nurses Association

Minnesota Nurses Association: Essentia executives choosing PR over patients

“We’ll keep fighting for safe staffing levels because it’s what our patients deserve – and we’re done asking quietly.” -- Chris Rubesch, an Essentia nurse and president of the Minnesota Nurses Association

Certified physician assistant Elizabeth Siikarla joins Essentia Health-Hayward Clinic

Essentia East Market APPs honor union anniversary, call for return to bargaining table

“By ignoring our union and refusing to come to the bargaining table, Essentia is ignoring the very people who are essential to the care and well-being of patients across Minnesota. We deserve better than this. We deserve respect.” -- Neissa Boehm

Essentia Miller Hill Surgery Center nurses, Essentia Solvay Hospice House nurses and staff vote to unionize with MNA

“We felt we weren’t being listened to. So we organized so that we could have our voices heard.” -- JeanAnn Norton, LPN at Essentia Solvay Hospice House

Nurses union attacks hospital executive pay after legislative defeat — and other labor news

By Max Nesterak, Minnesota Reformer Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly roundup of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week; the Minnesota Nurses Association goes after

Essentia Health in the news; Quote Me, Howie: Fred Friedman

Minnesota Community Measures issues its Health Care Quality Report annually in three separate findings. This report is the third of those three parts for care delivered in 2022.

Health care unions fight stagnant pay and rising burnout — and other labor news

By Max Nesterak, Minnesota Reformer Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. Essentia nurse practitioners and physician assistants file for

Essentia Health ushers in new era of patient care with grand opening of replacement St. Mary’s

St. Mary’s is a five-star hospital as rated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It features the area’s only Level I Trauma Center. Patient care will move from the legacy hospital to the replacement St. Mary’s on Sunday, July 30.

Essentia nurses to picket new St. Mary’s Medical Center on Friday amid ongoing staffing concerns

Hospital executives at Essentia Health, St. Luke’s and M Health Fairview are pursuing mergers while CEO compensation skyrockets. In 2020, Essentia CEO David Herman took a $1 million raise, and now takes home $2.7 million in compensation each year.