Nurse shortages are a focus in current bargaining between the hospital system and the 900+ nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association
Ten Saint Charles Nurses filed unsafe staffing complaints against the hospital system for allegedly failing to meet safe staffing levels. Nurses submitted complaints on May 5 claiming St. Charles failed to meet minimum staffing standards, didn’t direct patients elsewhere when the hospital operated over capacity and hadn’t corrected staffing law violations found in a 2022 investigation by the Oregon Health Authority…
