What Is Hospital Systems?
The Hospital Systems Division is comprised of the more than 400,000 health care workers across the United States – including over 110,000 nurses – who are members of SEIU, the nation's largest and fastest-growing health care union.
We're working together in an effort to build a National Health Care Union that will lead the fight for higher health care standards such as:
Safe staffing and quality care.
Understaffing in our hospitals and other health facilities drives down the quality of care and drives health care workers away from the profession. We are working to improve staffing levels, protect quality care standards, and eliminate mandatory overtime that puts patients at risk.
Better pay and working conditions.
At a time when nurses and other health care staff are leaving their professions in droves because of abysmal working conditions, we’re bargaining for improvements in pay, benefits, working conditions, and patient care decisions. We want to keep passionate and skilled caregivers in our hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care institutions in order to provide the level of care Americans expect and deserve.
A voice in health care policies.
Rather than leaving all the decisions about staffing and patient care standards to hospital and nursing home administrators, we’re coming together to address key issues and concerns through negotiated contracts, legislative and regulatory solutions, and community outreach.
Hospital Systems Issues
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