Minnesota Nurse Staffing Bill, Mayo Clinic Exemption

[allnurses]

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New language being considered by a legislative conference committee working on a health budget bill would exempt some hospitals from nurse staffing rules contained in the bill. 

If approved, health care systems like Mayo Clinic could side-step some of the major provisions of the proposed Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act, including the requirement that a committee made up of nurses, executives and others agree to staffing plans or, if they can't, resolve their issues through arbitration. 

However, according to draft language obtained by MPR News, this provision is only available to certain eligible hospitals that are "a national referral center engaged in substantial programs of patient care, medical research, and medical education meeting state and national needs, that receives more than 40 percent of its patients from outside the state of Minnesota, and that is located outside the seven-county metropolitan area.” 

This would prevent many major hospital systems, aside from Mayo, from taking advantage of this carve-out. 

 

Minnesota legislators add hospital carve-out to nurse staffing bill

[Idealista]

I truly hope that no nurse would work for an organization that cares so little about their patients and nurses. My opinion of Mayo has cratered after they fought the nurse staffing requirements and even the step of not wanting a committee with nurses on it to address the issues.

Considering the money they rake in on their reputation alone - it's contemptible.

[klone, MSN, RN]

Mayo effectively killed the bill in the 11th hour. 

[Swtstrwbrry82]

I heard about this a few weeks ago.  They say that they (Mayo) have things in place to take care of their nurses and have ideas to make things better for bedside nurses.  Has anyone heard what those ideas were?  

[klone, MSN, RN]

Nope.

[MNRN22, BSN]

I work at Mayo and I would no longer recommend it to anyone. There is a serious integrity problem going on. 

To the post about involving bedside nurses to make things better -- NO! They are not doing this. We are short staffed, administration is indifferent. Patient care is declining because the services are also overworked.