5/31/2023 0 Comments Alta bates summit medical center![]() ![]() This high turnover leaves ABSMC understaffed and its current staff unable to take educational leave or improve the quality of care, according to Hill. “When you don’t have a wage that is market wage with those other facilities, those nurses are going to leave.”ĪBSMC has a turnover rate of around 50 to 70 percent each year, Hill added the medical center loses about 900 to 1,200 nurses per year out of a staff of 1,800. “The turnover itself speaks very clearly and loudly that this hospital does not have a competitiveness with the other facilities in the surrounding areas,” Hill said. According to Hill, ABSMC nurses are asking for wage increases to make them competitive with surrounding medical facilities like Kaiser Permanente and Stanford Health Care. The Sutter Health spokesperson said in an email that ABSMC nurses are “demanding an unsustainable wage increase of 40%,” adding that Sutter has offered a 22.4% pay increase over four years, an increase comparable to that of other hospitals. Hill said the upcoming strike is more focused on working conditions and the impact of ABSMC’s high turnover rate on nurses’ quality of care. Nurses at ABSMC struck in October over issues with workplace violence and staffing, according to Hill. “So while it is disruptive, it is a necessary thing for us to do.” ![]() “A strike is a last resort for us it is when the employer stops negotiating with us,” said Michael Hill, an ICU nurse at ABSMC and a member of the nurses’ bargaining team. According to an email from a Sutter Health spokesperson, this will be the third strike by nurses at ABSMC, which is affiliated with Sutter, this year. The press release read that nurses are protesting the ABSMC administration’s alleged refusal to address concerns about working conditions, continuing education and workers’ ability to use benefits. 24, according to a press release from California Nurses Association/National Nurses United. Nurses at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, or ABSMC, have called a 10-day strike beginning Dec. ![]()
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