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Faces of Nuvance Health

The Faces of Nuvance Health project is focused on sharing the stories of the women and men who provide and support bedside patient care in the chain's hospitals and facilities.

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Help raise public awareness of our collective solution to unsafe staffing levels.

Trade Justice Alliance Webinar

There are many things wrong with the Trans-Pacific Partnership and with "Free Trade" in general: shrinking wages, job offshoring, threats to the environment and natural resources, food safety, digital freedom, access to affordable medicine, LGBT discrimination, and more. What hasn't been part of the discussion is how one constituency stands to suffer more than many of us realize: the world's women. And not just for obvious reasons of declining wages and lost jobs. Many of America's trading partners have laws in place blatantly discriminating against women and children, virtually legalizing

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Patients Before Profits

 
Patients before profits—our members know what these words mean better than anyone. We’ve seen corporations buy hospitals and then raise prices, cut staff and reduce essential services.

The Federal Trade Commission reviews these types of corporate deals to make sure patients don’t lose out in the process.


 

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March 2016 Nursing Open Forums

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Med Techs & Therapists at Danbury, New Milford Hospitals Celebrate First Contract

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Fri, 03/11/2016 - 11:30am
Danbury - Medical technicians and clinicians at Danbury and New Milford Hospitals yesterday voted overwhelmingly to ratify a first-ever contract following more than a year of negotiations with their employer. The union of approximately 260 surgical and radiologic technologists, licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and respiratory therapists cast ballots 10 to one in favor of the tentative agreement reached with management.
 
"This contract is how we’re going to be able to make our voices heard," said Beth Thomsen, a respiratory therapist serving patients at Danbury Hospital
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2012 CHANGES

Some useful information about the changes at WCTHN

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get involved in our future

Harvard School of Public health is looking for your input and your health please read this

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