Business Travelers and Rodeo Fans Warned About Impending Health Care Crisis in Las Vegas, According to Service Employees International Union.LAS VEGAS -- Business travelers to Las Vegas and rodeo fans planning to attend the National Finals Rodeo The National Finals Rodeo, organized by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, is the premier championship rodeo event in the United States. Wrangler Jeans is the title sponsor for the 10-day event, commonly just called the National Finals or NFR, which is also sometimes are warned that an impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. strike by nurses and technicians in Las Vegas may cause a medical crisis in that city starting Monday, Dec. 4, according to SEIU SEIU Service Employees International Union SEIU Special Education Intake Unit SEIU Secondary Education Interdisciplinary Unit SEIU Software Engineering Institute Union . The strike will begin at 6:00 AM. "We want to make travelers aware that the strike could lead to extensive disruptions in medical services in the Las Vegas area," said Pat Cheney, an RN in the Cardiac Intermediate Medical Care unit at Desert Springs hospital Desert Springs Hospital is for-profit hospital owned and operated by Universal Health Services. This 286 bed hospital is located in Paradise, Nevada. History The hospital was founded in 1971. . The key issue in the dispute is the hospitals' refusal to improve nurse staffing levels to protect patients. The two hospitals involved, Desert Springs and Valley hospitals, are hundreds of nurses short and have refused to make the staffing improvements that other Las Vegas hospitals are already making. The two hospitals, owned by Universal Health Services Universal Health Services, Inc. NYSE: UHS is a Fortune 500 company based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. This company is one of the nation's largest health care management companies, operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers , provide one third of the hospital beds for the core area of Las Vegas, close to the convention centers and the major hotels along the strip. Nurses and technicians voted to go on strike based on management's unfair treatment and their unwillingness to bargain in good faith on better hospital staffing. Desert Springs and Valley hospitals perform nearly half of the open heart procedures and treat 27% of the emergency room patients in the Las Vegas core. www.QualityCareNevada.org |
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