Hundreds of registered nurses at Kaiser Permanente L-A Medical Center have begun a four-day strike … the second walkout at the hospital in three months.
Debra Grabelle with the California Nurses Association says the walkout is part of a push for increased staffing levels to improve patient care.
“They have the most sick patients from all over the country come to that Medical Center..and sometimes that patient needs a one-on one attention from a nurse”.
But, Kaiser contends that current nursing staff ratios at the hospital–in its words–“meet or exceed state guidelines.”
Ken Jeffries, KABC News
