Two decades of empirical evidence shows that understaffing in hospitals leads to increases in negative patient outcomes such as readmissions, hospital acquired infections, and death. The health and safety of direct care staff is at risk as well, with increases
HPAE Position Papers & Publications
Code Red Position Paper I: Understaffed. Overworked. Unsafe for everyone.
The urgent need for Safe Staffing legislation in New Jersey. Understaffing is driving our healthcare system to the brink of collapse.That is why HPAE, New Jersey’s largest union of healthcare workers,is pushing the state legislature to pass a law in
Hackensack Meridian Health: Profits Before Safe Care?
Introduction Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Registered Nurses (RNs), members of HPAE Local 5058, have been at the forefront of the war against the coronavirus pandemic since it was barely a rumored overseas outbreak. The sickest members of our community
Exposed & At-Risk: New Jersey healthcare workers reveal how our safety systems failed them during the COVID-19 pandemic
Our survey, returned by 1,100 HPAE healthcare workers, gave us a frontline picture of the shortcomings of our pandemic response and the impact those gaps had on not only the workers, but on the care they provided and on the
HPAE White Paper on Meadowlands Hospital Cited in Spotlight Article
HPAE's White Paper on Meadowlands Hospital, produced in 2012, received prominent mention in an article published today in NJ Spotlight on the hospital.
New Members Guide: Union Strong in Unprecedented Times
Congratulations on joining HPAE, New Jersey’s largest healthcare union with affiliated locals in the Philadelphia area. We’ve grown since our founding in 1974 through a comprehensive organizing program, strong and effective membership representation, and skilled and determined advocacy for progressive
HEALTHCARE WORKERS UNION ACCUSES STATE OF INADEQUATE MONITORING
State officials have allowed accountability and transparency to lapse as for-profit firms have gained control of a growing number of hospitals, according to a report by a union representing nurses and other healthcare workers.
HPAE White Paper - The Christie Administration's Department of Health: Failure in Enforcement, Accountability and Transparency
The health care landscape has changed dramatically in the past decade, driven by reimbursement changes, hospital consolidations, health reform, and hospital and health system competition. In New Jersey, financially vulnerable hospitals have reduced services and staff, gone through bankruptcy or closed, undergone
HPAE White Paper - Meadowlands Hospital and the State of New Jersey: Failures of Oversight Put Profits Before Patients at a Community Hospital
The accelerated introduction of for-profit hospitals in New Jersey over the past five years presents a challenge for patient care advocates, state legislators, government regulators, consumers and health professionals. The availability, quality and affordability of health care in our communities
Union asks about debt in Rutgers-UMDNJ plan
A union representing health-care workers is raising more concerns over the proposed restructuring of higher education in New Jersey, including questions about the apportionment of debt between Rutgers U. and UMDNJ.
HPAE White Paper - The Reorganization of UMDNJ: GETTING IT RIGHT
On January 25, 2012, the University ofMedicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Advisory Committee released their final report regarding the reorganization of medical higher education in New Jersey.While we hope that restructuring will have a positive impact on the health, education and