Nurses Launch Billboard Campaign Against Renewal of Desert Regional Medical Center Lease Renewal

Abstract

No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. The California Nurses Association and National Nurses United have launched a billboard campaign against the lease renewal of public-owned, Palm-Springs-based Desert Regional Medical Center to Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare (Figure 1) (1). The billboard campaign is in response to the posting of two videos that showed a water leak in Desert Regional's neurological intensive care unit and an infestation of cockroaches in the emergency department break room (2,3). Desert Regional is a public hospital governed by an elected district board. Tenet Healthcare is a private company that leases and runs the hospital. The nurses’ union said Tenet has a long-standing practice of short-staffing Desert Regional, which they said has caused patient safety issues (1). Tenet is currently in the process of renegotiating another 30-year lease with the hospital, which would include the option to purchase the hospital from the Desert Healthcare District at the end of the new lease (1). Desert …

Keywords

• california nurses association
• desert regional medical center
• national nurses united
• tenet healthcare
• billboard
• cleanliness
• healthcare quality
• staffing
• cockroaches
• water leak