Partnership Matters
Brought to you by the Labor Management Project, Partnership Matters gathers news about best practices, training opportunities, reports and more to help you keep up with the latest trends in health care delivery and labor-management partnerships.
Protecting Workers from Workplace Violence in the ED
Emergency department (ED) workers are frequently targets of violence. One recent study showed that 55 percent of ED nurses experienced physical violence and/or verbal abuse from a patient or a visitor over a single one-week period. PCTs, security, technologists,...
Hourly Rounding: An Emergency Department Best Practice
A visit to a hospital emergency department (ED) can be frightening, overwhelming, and confusing. Helping patients navigate the experience and providing them timely information can improve the patient experience. More than half of inpatients enter the hospital via the...
Emergency Department Overcrowding
Is your emergency department overcrowded? Are people leaving without being seen? Are patients who have been admitted being boarded in the ED, awaiting beds? Do patients repeatedly return to the ED for healthcare? Overcrowding in hospital emergency departments is a...
1199SEIU Delegates Hone Leadership Skills through LMP Training and Coaching
“I have a voice now. I speak up for my members when representing them,” explained Sharon Thomas, 1199SEIU delegate and Patient Care Technician when asked how she benefited from a leadership training series that Labor Management Project (LMP) consultants provided to...
BHLC Participants Share What They’ve Learned about Supporting People with Mental Illness
“We are in the process of trying to grow, to take what we’ve learned here and just try to get better,” said BronxCare Special Care Center’s recreational therapist Jennifer Cross at the final meeting of the Behavioral Health Learning Collaborative (BHLC) on December...
Documentary on the High Cost of Medical Errors Makes for Powerful Teaching Tool
To Err is Human, a new documentary by filmmaker Mike Eisenberg, may leave you in tears. Even if you remain dry-eyed, this powerful teaching tool will inspire you and your staff to advocate for better patient safety. Eisenberg, the son of the late Dr. John Eisenberg, a...
Collaborating to Transform Ambulatory Care At Brookdale
“Ambulatory care has a primary role in keeping people healthy so that they don’t need to go to the hospital,” said 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers’ East Executive Vice President Joyce Neil to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center’s new ambulatory care...
A Day of Learning for 1199SEIU Healthcare Workers East Nurses
Mark your calendar for the ninth annual RN Symposium, “Nurses, Leading with Hearts and Minds,” a day of sharing knowledge about industry trends and how they are affecting your job. The symposium will be held on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, at the Marriott Brooklyn...
Preventable Hospitalizations Decline Under DSRIP
Aimed at restructuring New York’s healthcare system to reduce avoidable hospital use by 25 percent over five years, the Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP) has shown measurable progress. At the close of DSRIP’s third year, preventable readmissions were...
Improving Retention by Empowering CNAs
Turnover among Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) in nursing homes is an enormous problem, with estimates of annual turnover ranging from 42 percent to an astounding 86 percent. CNA turnover has been linked to diminished quality of care, resident behavioral problems...