Recent News and Press Releases

230 Nurses Win Union with PASNAP at Fair Acres Geriatric Center, 6/3/09, PASNAP Press Release

More Nurses Equals Better Care, PASNAP President Patricia Eakin, RN, 6/22/09, Philadelphia Daily News

Single-payer Topic Dominates Health-Care Listening Sessions, 5/27/09, Billings Gazette

Fighting Cancer, Fighting the System, 5/17/09, Los Angeles Times

Adolph Introduced Nurse-Patient Ratio Bill, 3/26/09, Delaware County Daily Times

Nurses to Rally in Support of Bill, 3/19/09, Delaware County Daily Times

Legislation Targets Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, 3/16/09, Delaware County Daily Times

Nurse's Insurance Nightmare Makes Her A Single-Payer Advocate, 3/7/09, Philadelphia Inquirer, featuring a PASNAP nurse!

Nurses and Community Leaders Protest Temple's Plans to Eliminate Vital Services at Northeastern Hospital
Press Release, 12/18/08

Doctors Call Emergency Care 'National Disgrace,'
Alex Johnson and Tracie Potts, MSNBC, 12/10/08

Coverage Mandate will Fail as a Health-Care Reform Plan
Philadelphia Inquirer, Rose Ann DeMoro, 12/8/08

Annual Honesty and Ethics poll rates nurses best of 21 professions
Gallup Poll, Lydia Saad, 11/4/08

Study Shows Hospitals with Unionized RNs Offer Better Care
Megan McCloskey, Las Vegas Sun, 10/10/08

States Work to Avert Nurse Shortage
Pauline Vu, Stateline.org, 9/22/08

Nursing Ratios Save Lives and Money
Suzanne Gordon, Boston Globe, 7/9/08

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

Crozer, Nurses Ink Three-Year Contract
Timothy Logue, Delaware County Daily Times, 6/4/08

CMC Nurses Union Pushes for Support
Dan Axelrod, Scranton Times-Tribune, 3/24/08

More Insurance Won't Solve Healthcare Crisis
Deborah Burger, RN and Patricia Eakin, RN, Delaware County Daily Times, 3/18/08

PASNAP Nurses Help Save Mental Health Unit
Jo Ciavaglia, Bucks County Courier Times, 1/22/08

Pennsylvania’s Leading RN Association Joins CNA/NNOC, Nation’s Largest Nurses’ Union
Press Release, 1/10/08