PA: Delaware County Memorial Hospital nurses join PASNAP; For-profit Group Buying Hospital

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Delaware County Memorial Hospital is part of 5 hospital nonprofit Crozer-Keystone Health System. Crozer-Keystone Health System, based in Springfield, Pa., is the largest employer and health care provider in Delaware County, a Philadelphia suburb.

This makes 3 out of 5 hospitals that are unionized; 2 are represeted by Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals PASNAP (started by Crozer's unioized nurses whic split from PA Nurses Assoc.)

For-profit Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. of California has filed regulatory papers to purchase Crozer-Keystone which has had huge $$$ losses in 2014 +2015.

My personal experience working here was as agency nurse being booked for 12hr shift, only to be sent to 3 different units covering 4hrs each floor while expecting to be on just ONE unit. I notified my agency I did not want to be pulled during scheduled shift. When this occurred second time, I voted with my feet and declined to return facility.

Delco nurses vote to unionize

Nurses at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill voted Friday and Saturday to join the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals.

The vote, supervised by the National Labor Relations Board, was 164 to 130 in favor of unionization, the union said. The union will represent 330 nurses at the hospital.

DCMH nurses unionize as Crozer-Keystone readies sale

Delaware County Memorial Hospital nurses join PASNAP

Crozer-Keystone to become part of Prospect Medical Holdings