Healthcare Workers Sound Alarm on Staffing Shortage

SEIU members hold an 18-foot long petition, with thousands of healthcare worker signatures

Concerned healthcare workers in Illinois and Indiana are calling on The Joint Commission to add a safe staffing standard to its accreditation process. Yolanda Stewart, a patient care technician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, once injured her back so badly on the job that she couldn’t work for six months. But when she talks about that […]