Tenet's USC University Hospital last week became the last downtown Los Angeles hospital to have its 500 registered nurses join the California Nurses Association.
Tenet's USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. University Hospital last week became the last
downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or hospital to have its 500 registered nurses join the
California Nurses Association The California Nurses Association (CNA) is the largest and fastest-growing labor union and professional association of Registered Nurses in California. The National Nurses Organizing Committee is a national labor union for Registered Nurses, and is affiliated with the CNA. . The RN's voted by 61 percent to join
the CNA, the state's largest registered nurses association and one
of the nation's largest health care unions. CNA has aggressively
targeted L.A. hospitals in recent years, with only one downtown hospital
having unionized nurses a decade ago, according to a union spokesman.
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