For Sale By Tenet

nepilot · Feb 21, 2004

tenet plans to sale Redding Medical Center also

Tenet strikes again:
For sale
Among the hospitals Tenet Healthcare plans to sell are these facilities in California:
* Brotman Medical Center, Culver City, 420 beds
* Centinela Hospital Medical Center, Inglewood, 370
* Chapman Medical Center, Orange, 114
* Coastal Communities Hospital, Santa Ana, 178
* Community Hospital of Huntington Park, Huntington Park, 81
* Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital, Marina del Rey, 166
* Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital, Inglewood, 358
* Doctors Medical Center, San Pablo, 232
* Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center, Encino campus, 151
* Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center, Tarzana campus, 236
* Garfield Medical Center, Monterey Park, 210
* Greater El Monte Community Hospital, South El Monte, 117
* Midway Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, 225
* Mission Hospital of Huntington Park, Huntington Park, 109
* Monterey Park Hospital, Monterey Park, 101
* Queen of Angels/Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Hollywood, 434
* Western Medical Center, Anaheim, 188
* Western Medical Center, Santa Ana, 280
* Whittier Medical Center, Whittier, 181

nepilot · Feb 21, 2004

I am on a travel assignment at a tenet hospital...can get ot .... if sale occurs just make sure your company know that day and make arrangements for an amendment to your contract with who ever buys it....

I was already involved in one like this (not tenet) and as long as you have an amended contract you just keep working and keep getting paid......

Hmmm...and to think I WAS going to take a travel assignment to a Tenet hospital in CA. Not anymore!

Sheri257 · Feb 21, 2004

Wrong post. Sorry.

pickledpepperRN · Feb 26, 2004

http://www.calnurse.org/cna/press/22404.html

RNs at 4th Southern California Tenet hospital Vote to Join California Nurses Association Votes Seen as Boon to Sale of Hospitals

Registered Nurses at Suburban Medical Center in Paramount have voted to affiliate with the California Nurses Association in balloting counted late Friday night, the CNA announced today.

Suburban becomes the fourth Tenet Healthcare hospital in Southern California in just three weeks where the RNs have voted to unionize with CNA, the state's largest RN organization, in votes that CNA says are likely to have a significant impact on nursing and patient care standards throughout the region.

RNs at Midway Hospital Medical Center in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles, Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, a well known Westside Los Angeles hospital, and Coastal Communities Hospital in Santa Ana have also voted to join CNA in recent days. More than 650 RNs will be represented by CNA at the four hospitals.

'A dramatic effect on patient care and the future of hospital services in the region'

"These elections will have a dramatic effect on the lives of nurses and patients at those hospitals and in the surrounding communities - and sends a powerful message about the future of hospital and emergency care services in the region," said CNA Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro.

All four facilities are on the list of hospitals Tenet plans to divest in the coming months and representation by CNA "provides a firm foundation for assuring continuity of care and the ability of the new owner or operator to retain the hospital's most experienced professional RNs," DeMoro said.

Under a CNA agreement signed with Tenet in December 2003, which provides for an enhanced voice for RNs in patient care decisions and fair, expedited union elections, pay, benefits, and other contract protections would carry over to the new owner. That's one of many reasons the Tenet RNs have said they were casting their ballots for CNA.

'What better time than now'

"What better time than now to join CNA before Suburban's ownership changes," said Olga Indick, a Post Partum RN at Suburban. "We need an organization like CNA with the power of 55,000 nurses and a contract that protects us from changes in our salaries, benefits as well as providing us with job security."

In addition to the protections in the event of a sale or transfer of control, the CNA-Tenet agreement also means that the RNs gain 22% in pay increases over the next three years, a wide range of new vehicles to advocate for patients and promote patient safety, and a new retiree health benefit funded solely by Tenet contributions for eligible RNs.

An encouragement for RN retention

Those terms, and other provisions to be negotiated in each facility, "will substantially increase the prospects of stability and provide a meaningful incentive for the RNs at each hospital to stay at the bedside," added CNA Organizing Director David Johnson..

Indeed, many industry analysts seem to share the view that the contracts will enhance the viability of the hospitals that Tenet plans to sell.

A report in the Bureau of National Affairs, a Washington-based news service that tracks labor and other public policy issues, this week quoted industry sources stating that "the long-term labor peace, stable workforce, and predictable costs associated with those contracts probably would be viewed as a positive for any potential buyer."

"Winning CNA representation is the best thing for our profession. Even with a new employer, we are guaranteed raises, job security and no loss of benefits because of our CNA contract," said Midway RNs Louella Pilo, Julie Soriano and Fe Galang in a joint statement after their election victory. "This is just the beginning."

'A stronger voice for RNs'

The CNA wins at Suburban, Midway, Brotman and Coastal are also expected to spur campaigns now underway at 17 other Tenet hospitals, 13 of them in Southern California, where RNs will be voting on CNA representation by the end of April.

"We chose CNA, the largest and strongest professional RN organization in California, to improve the working conditions and wages for RNs - and to have a stronger voice here at Brotman," said Brotman RN Felicitas Sanchez. . "Other Tenet hospitals who have not voted yet should join us."

As more of the hospitals vote to join CNA, Johnson noted, it should have a considerable effect on helping raise nursing standards throughout the southland where RNs for years have lagged behind RNs in Northern California in wages and other standards. All of those "are essential steps to help reduce the nursing shortage and rebuild our nursing infrastructure in California."

With the Suburban vote, CNA now represents some 1,600 RNs at nine Tenet hospitals, and 55,000 RNs overall in 150 California facilities. CNA is the largest RN organization in California and the largest independent RN union in the nation.

jemb · Feb 28, 2004

Had to comment that I previously worked at a hospital that was purchased by Tenet while I was there. They were doing extensive earthquake retrofitting just before I moved on.

Point being -- earthquake retrofitting entering into the the excuse for the sale of some of these hospitals is bogus. (But then, we're not surprised, are we?)