Contact a sector specialist
Gary Storrs
Health Care Employees Sector Specialist
gstorrs@afscme.org
202-429-1225
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The AFSCME Health Care Employees Facebook Group is a site dedicated to communications between AFSCME members who provide patient care and related services. All AFSCME members in the health care sector are welcome, as are union representatives who deal with health care bargaining units. We want you to join and help this group become a timely and lively source of information about how fellow union members handle workplace problems.
sector news and updates
Updates from the AFSCME Information Highway blog
Latest updates
- Standards for Surgical Respirators and Masks: Relevance for Protecting Healthcare Workers and the Public During Pandemics
- Effects of nurse-to-patient ratio legislation on nurse staffing and patient mortality, readmissions, and length of stay: a prospective study in a panel of hospitals
- Workers’ compensation costs for healthcare caregivers: Home healthcare, long‐term care, and hospital nurses and nursing aides
- A policy manifesto for paying, protecting, and empowering essential workers
- Prevention of Hand Eczema among Nurse Apprentice (PREVEDERM): An Interventional Study
News from the AFSCME Privatization Update blog
Latest updates
- Kelly calls for 300 more workers to fix ‘cluster-mess’ KanCare application center
- Audit: Privatized Medicaid is saving Iowa millions of dollars. Democrats aren’t convinced
- Justice says he’s working on PEIA possibilities independently of Task Force
- Signs protest Davenport school district’s outsourcing initiative
- Massena Hospital & Town Take Step Toward Privatization
