Nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center and Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital have unanimously cast a vote of no confidence in hospital leadership, according to a Friday, July 18, news release.
The vote, according to the news release from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, came after “repeated bad faith bargaining practices by hospital executives, who have continued to disregard failures in patient care standards.”
MemorialCare officials were not immediately available to comment on the no-confidence vote on Friday.
Both Long Beach hospitals are well-respected institutions, both locally and, by reputation, nationally.
The nearly 120-year-old Long Beach Medical Center has been repeatedly recognized as a top-performing hospital — both overall and in specific discliples, such as obstetrics and gynecology, and colon cancer surgery — by U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek. Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital, which has received similar honors over the years, treats more than 13,000 children annually, whose families come from all over the region and beyond, according to its website.
But despite all that success, there has been escalating tension between MemorialCare and the nurses union as they bargain for a new contract — with the no-confidence vote the latest increase.
The California Nurses Association, which represents more than 2,000 registered nurses at both Long Beach hospitals, held a one-day strike in May, just a week after MemorialCare had announced a wave of layoffs impacting 115 workers locally.
The union delivered that strike notice following 15 bargaining sessions with representatives of the hospitals, and without either party having declared an impasse in negotiations, according to a previous press release from MemorialCare.
During the two previous contract negotiations between the hospitals and CNA — both of which successfully concluded in an agreement without a strike being called — the negotiating teams held 41 and 21 bargaining sessions, respectively, before an agreement was reached, MemorialCare said at the time.
And while MemorialCare could not immediately be reached for comment, officials there have repeatedly said it has bargained in good faith.
“The hospitals have negotiated in good faith with union representatives for the last several months,” Stephanie Garcia, vice president of operations at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center, said in a previous statement, “and we remain committed to doing so going forward.”
The vote of no confidence, CNA said, represents a “call to urgent action and accountability,” and a demand for “fair contracts that ensure safe staffing and high quality patient care.”
Some issues Long Beach nurses have been dealing with at the two hospitals, CNA said, include unsafe staffing levels across units and incidents of workplace violence that have continued to happen without a comprehensive prevention plan in place.
“Nurses have had enough,” Stephanie Jobe, a registered nurse at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital, said in the news release. “We are committed to our patients and our profession, but we cannot continue to work under leadership that ignores our safety warnings, stonewalls us at the bargaining table and punishes transparency.”
MemorialCare, Garcia said in May, takes the safety of patients and employee safety seriously. The hospitals, she said, are constantly evaluating and reviewiong their processes to ensure that measures are meeting the demands of patients and constatnly evaluating safety protocols.
“We have metal detectors in that (ER) area to assure that we have processes in places to screen patients and visitors,” Garcia said at the time, “and more importantly, we are going to meet the state requirements, or even exceed the demand for us to have metal detectors throughout our entire hospital by 2027.”
As for the no-confidence vote, CNA said it will share the results with the “relevant regulatory bodies,” adding that the union is “calling on community members, elected officials and patients to stand with them in demanding fair contracts that ensure safe staffing and high quality of patient care.”
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