Jaime E. Marine, NJ.com, August 8, 2010 Mannington Township - The nurses at The Memorial Hospital of Salem County have won the right to vote in a union election, according to the Health Professionals and Allied Employees union. "Memorial Hospital of Salem County has received a decision - issued on August 2 by the regional director for the Philadelphia office of the National Labor Relations Board - directing an election for the purpose of allowing the hospital's nurses to decide whether or not they want to be represented for collective bargaining purposes by the Health Professionals and Allied Employees," James L. Angle, chief executive officer ... Memorial

Jaime E. Marine, Sunbeam, July 14, 2010 Mannington Township - The National Labor Relations Board recently dismissed charges filed by the attorneys for the parent company of The Memorial Hospital of Salem County against the Health Professionals and Allied Employees union and pro-union nurses, according to a news release issued by the HPAE on Monday. Hospital spokesman George J. Gennaoui declined Tuesday to comment on the matter. ... Nurses

Press of Atlantic City, May 29, 2010 South Jersey Healthcare and its nurses union have agreed to a new three-year labor contract. The two sides struck the deal Thursday night, hospital officials said Friday, alleviating any concerns about a work stoppage at the Vineland-based hospital network by doing so before the current contract's expiration date May 31. The nurses union has about 750 members and is under the umbrella of Health Professionals and Allied Employees. ... South

Jaime E. Marine, Star-Ledger, May 21, 2010 Mannington Township - Saying they want a larger role in patient care and to protect health services for the community, more than 70 percent of the registered nurses at The Memorial Hospital of Salem County filed a petition for an election to join the state's largest nursing union, according to a release issued Thursday by HPAE. The petition for the election to join the Health Professionals and Allied Employees union was filed on Wednesday. Nurse Lorie Halter, RN ICU, said in a press release that the registered nurses want to make sure the hospital stays an important part of the community. ... Salem

Mike Curley, Northern Valley Suburbanite, May 20, 2010 Englewood – The nursing staff at the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center raffled off 32 gift baskets to benefit nursing students in Haiti last week, as part of Nurses Week. The nurses were able to raise $10,700 from the gift basket raffle, which were assembled and donated primarily by the nursing units at the hospital, though a few were donated by others such as the hospital's gift shop, the president and vice president and the Advance Practice Nurse Group. The gift baskets were displayed in the lobby from May 5 to May 12, after which the winners were announced so they could claim their prizes. ... Nurses

Joe Carlson, Modern Healthcare, April 20, 2010 If nurses in New Jersey enjoyed the nurse-patient staffing ratios seen by their colleagues in California, researchers estimate that the Garden State might have seen 14% fewer surgical deaths in 2006, according to predictive modeling in a new study of nurse-patient ratios. The study, “Implications of the California nurse staffing mandate for other states,” published today in the journal Health Services Research, finds that the nurse-to-patient ratios enacted by law in California in 2004 have had the effect of decreasing nurse burnout and lowering turnover and the number who reported that workloads caused them to miss changes in patient conditions. ... Nurse

Tara Driggs, Northern Valley Suburbanite, February 4, 2010 After 17 days of bearing intense heat, administering non-stop emergency care and witnessing unbelievable strength, two nurses from Englewood Hospital and Medical Center returned from Haiti January 29. Fort Lee resident Cathi Goldfischer and Wyckoff resident Arlene Keys were sent to Haiti as part of the NJ-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT), which functions within the National Disaster Medical System. Both nurses have worked at Englewood Hospital for more than 20 years. ... Local

Andrew Kitchenman, NJBIZ, November 2, 2009 A three-year effort to improve the work environment for New Jersey’s nurses is under way, with 47 state hospitals set to participate in a session from November 16 to 18. The hospitals are participating in the Transforming Care at the Bedside initiative, to train support nurses so they can spend more time with their patients. The training also is intended to increase retention and decrease turnover among nurses, according to Aline Homes, director of the New Jersey Hospital Association Institute for Quality and Patient Safety. The NJHA is sponsoring the initiative.

Star Ledger, June 17, 2009 Unionized nurses at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center approved a new three-year contract yesterday that union officials said achieved their main goal of adding more nurses per patient. Eighty-five percent of the nearly 500 nurses who voted at the Clinton Inn in Tenafly ratified the contract, said Jeanne Otersen, a spokeswoman for the Health Professionals and Allied Employees union. The union successfully bargained for salary increases and no changes in their pension plan, but gave up a paid half-hour lunch break. ... Nurses

Karen DeMarco, Bergen NOW, June 17, 2009 Englewood - Members of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees local union have voted to ratify a new contract, thus bringing an end to the two-week lockout of healthcare workers by Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. In a written statement released late Tuesday afternoon, the union stated that "winning nurse staffing improvements long advocated made the two-week lockout feel worthwhile. ... We have always been proud of the nursing care we provide at Englewood Hospital, and in each contract we've worked to improve our nurse-to-patient staffing levels ..." Englewood

Associated Press, June 16, 2009 Englewood - Nurses at a northern New Jersey hospital have approved a new collective bargaining agreement, ending a lockout that began June 3. Jeanne Otersen, spokeswoman for the Health Professionals and Allied Employees union, said today that the 700 nurses at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center received modest pay increases from the nonprofit facility and staffing improvements that will reduce their patient loads. She said the nurses will return to work Thursday morning. Meanwhile, 850 nurses, technicians and other health care workers reached a tentative agreement with Bayonne Medical Center on Sunday. They're due to vote Thursday. The employees returned to work Friday after the Bayonne hospital ended a three-day lockout.

Shankar P, NJBIZ, June 16, 2009 Englewood Hospital and Medical Center announced late this afternoon that its 719 striking nurses would return to work Thursday morning following an agreement it reached with their union, ending a 13-day lockout. The nurses this afternoon ratified a new contract that Emerson-based Health Professionals and Allied Employees negotiated with the hospital management late Tuesday night, the hospital announced late Wednesday afternoon. The key terms of the new contract include a three-year contract term, a 6 percent wage increase over three years and a half-hour unpaid lunch period, thus extending the patient care workday by 30 minutes ... Englewood

Associated Press, June 15, 2009 Englewood - Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and its unionized nurses plan to continue contract talks today. The hospital has locked out 700 members of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees Union since June 3, and negotiations had broken off on June 6. But the talks resumed Thursday and continued for 16 hours before being temporarily halted on Friday, so the union could review the hospital's financial records. The federal mediator overseeing the talks had both sides return to the table on Saturday, but no deal was reached after several hours. Meanwhile, talks between Bayonne Medical Center and its unionized workers resumed Sunday.

Associated Press, June 13, 2009 Englewood - Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and its unionized nurses have resumed contract talks. The hospital has locked out 700 members of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees Union since June 3, and negotiations broke off on June 6. However, talks resumed Thursday and continued for 16 hours. Negotiations were temporarily halted on Friday, so the union could review the hospital's financial records. The talks are being overseen by a federal mediator. The talks had stalled over salary and staffing issues. Meanwhile, Bayonne Medical Center ended a three-day lockout on Friday and called back 850 nurses and other health care workers, who are also represented by the HPAE. Contracts talks there could resume Sunday.

Associated Press, June 10, 2009 Englewood - Management and labor plan to resume negotiations in the lockout at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, where 650 members of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees Union have been locked out since June 3. Talks are to resume Thursday morning. There are no plans to return to the bargaining table at Bayonne Medical Center, where 750 members of the same union were locked out Tuesday. The disputes began after collective bargaining agreements expired May 31. Englewood management says the lockout could stretch out if it has to sign a new contract with US Nursing Corp., which provides its replacement workers. The firm also provides replacement workers in Bayonne.