California State Capitol

Hospital Staffing Shortages Draw Hundreds of Nurses and Healthcare Professionals to Rally at State Capitol on May 7

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月曜日, 5月 6, 2024

SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Experts predict that more nurses will leave the bedside in the next 10 years and that other healthcare professionals may follow suit. (See Facts: www.unacuhcp.org/backlog). UNAC/UHCP members throughout California will return to Sacramento, urging solutions that will lead more students to remain in their communities for their healthcare careers, and empower them to enforce safe staffing in their hospitals.

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  • Rally at California State Capitol: West Steps, 10th Street and Capitol Avenue, Sacramento
    Call to schedule onsite interviews with nurses attending rally.
  • SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Experts predict that more nurses will leave the bedside in the next 10 years and that other healthcare professionals may follow suit.
  • Morales added that current nurses and care providers feel their staffing complaints have fallen on deaf ears: "We need to improve how our state agencies handle short staffing.
  • UNAC/UHCP is affiliated with the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO.

RNs call for half-billion-dollar investment and legislative package to fix the nursing shortage crisis by 2030

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木曜日, 5月 4, 2023

SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The registered nurses and health care professionals of UNAC/UHCP are calling on California lawmakers to intervene in the chronic nursing shortage—with a half-billion-dollar investment and legislation that will double California's capacity to graduate new RNs and bring transparency and accountability to the enforcement of California's lifesaving, ground-breaking nurse-to-patient ratios.

Key Points: 
  • Working bedside nurses are available to tell in-depth stories about the staffing crisis.
  • The staffing crisis is a systemic national problem in need of systemic national solutions.
  • UNAC/UHCP members are coming to Sacramento with bold, visionary solutions to the crisis that include:
    A request for a $500 million state investment from 2025 to 2030 for California's 77 community college nursing schools.
  • Community Nursing: Assembly Bill 1695 will open the nursing pipeline by creating a high school level Nursing 101 course with automatic admission toward an associate degree in nursing (ADN) at the nearest community college.

Cordoba Corporation's Founder & CEO George L. Pla Honored with Latino Spirit Award from the Latino Legislative Caucus

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水曜日, 5月 4, 2022

Cordoba Corporation's Founder & CEO George L. Pla was honored for Achievement in Business & Philanthropy at the Latino Spirit Awards, hosted by the California Latino Legislative Caucus on Monday, May 2, 2022, at the State Capitol in Sacramento.

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  • Cordoba Corporation's Founder & CEO George L. Pla was honored for Achievement in Business & Philanthropy at the Latino Spirit Awards, hosted by the California Latino Legislative Caucus on Monday, May 2, 2022, at the State Capitol in Sacramento.
  • The Latino Spirit Awards were created by the Latino Legislative Caucus in 2002 to highlight positive role models within our diverse Latino community.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220504005203/en/
    George L. Pla receives Latino Spirit Award resolution from Senator Mara Elena Durazo and Assembly Member Robert Rivas.
  • "It was a humbling and memorable experience to join so many dedicated and distinguished Latino leaders in being honored by the Legislature with the Latino Spirit Award," stated George L. Pla.

Preservationists, Environmentalists, and Small Businesses Protest Demolition of State Capitol

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月曜日, 3月 22, 2021

and Public Accountability for Our Capitol are urging the governor and legislative leadership to stop the demolition and to restore the historic Capitol Annex through a transparent process as required by law.

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  • and Public Accountability for Our Capitol are urging the governor and legislative leadership to stop the demolition and to restore the historic Capitol Annex through a transparent process as required by law.
  • In addition, the Historic State Capitol Commission, required by law to review and advise the Legislature on any changes to the Capitol, was denied information and kept out of the development process.
  • Thousands of Californians and small businesses have joined Save Our Capitol!
  • The U.S. Capitol hides its visitor entrance, so it doesn't distract from the original historic Capitol the Capitol Annex Project does the opposite.