Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Mission Nurses Reach New Contract Agreement with HCA

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A little over a month after Mission Health registered nurses (RNs) voted to authorize a strike, they announced that they had ratified a new three-year contractwith HCA. The contract will improve patient safety and nurse retention. The 1,600 nurses, who are represented by the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU), said the highlights of the contract include substantial wage increases, new measures that will ensure that nurses are "floated" (temporarily reassigned) to units similar to their normal specialty and the ability of nurses to use preferred names and add personal pronouns to name badges.

"We are excited to have this new contract and ensure that our hospital is on a path to taking the best possible care of our patients and community," said Huns Brown, an RN working in Mission Health's pulmonary progressive care unit, in the release. "The devastation Hurricane Helene brought to our region underscores how Mission being the best possible version of itself is more important than ever."