PASNAP is the fastest growing union for nurses and health professionals in Pennsylvania.  As members of a professional union, we have the right to sit at the table where decisions about our work are made.  Now, we have the power to define our work lives and improve patient care, both in the worksite and in the political arena.  We are PASNAP!  

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Crozer Nurses Ratify Contract

Nurses overwhelmingly ratify a new contract that improves staffing and that maintains the highest RN standards in Pennsylvania.

Read more:
Delaware County Daily Times, 6/4/08

Healthcare for All

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PASNAP supports winning healthcare for all. To read more about this solution to the serious problem of access to healthcare in the US, see an article written on the issue by PASNAP's President, Patricia Eakin, RN, or watch PASNAP nurses and others on Pennsylvania Senator Ferlo's Capitol Update Video on the healthcare system and single-payer.

Find out more about proposed federal legislation that would guarantee healthcare for all through a single payer system, HR 676. Visit Healthcare Now, the leading organization in the effort to win a not-for-profit healthcare system.

MRSA Rates Tied to Understaffing, Washington Post, 6/24/08

Ranks of Underinsured are Rising, Study Finds New York Times, 6/10/08

CMC Nurses Win First Contract with PASNAPScranton-Times Tribune, 5/1/08

Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs , by Reed Abelson and Milt Freudenheim, New York Times, 5/4/08

It's Time for U.S. to Revisit Universal Healthcare, by Susan Cornner, Los Angeles Times, 5/05/08

PASNAP Affiliates with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee , 1/10/08