FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Rebecca Wakefield Rebecca@seiu1991.org (305) 804-7051 Nurses, Doctors Take on Their Most Critical Case – Saving Jackson Healthcare professionals have begun their own campaign for the public hospital, one that includes billboards, airplane banners, tele-town halls, radio ads and mailers. MIAMI – The nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals at Jackson Health System,Continue reading “Nurses, Doctors, Healthcare Professionals Get Out the Vote for Jackson Bond”
Category Archives: Local 1991 Press Center
Healthcare Professionals Support Jackson Bond Issue
Nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals at Jackson Health System will turn out on Sept. 17 at 2 p.m. to support the launch of the Citizens for a Healthy Miami-Dade bond campaign to upgrade outmoded facilities at Jackson.
Immigrant Detention Costs Miami-Dade Residents
SEIU Local 1991 joins a community call for the county to end its policy of holding detainees for ICE, a practice that costs Miami-Dade taxpayers up to $12.5 billion a year.
SEIU Local 1991 Statement on Trayvon Martin Case
As mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers, the members of SEIU Local 1991 shared the horror of the nation over the death of Trayvon Martin. As part of the county workforce to which Trayvon Martin’s family belongs, we stood in solidarity with them in seeking justice for their son. Our pain was amplified when theContinue reading “SEIU Local 1991 Statement on Trayvon Martin Case”
Speak Out for Our Patients!
Call your state legislator right now at (866) 443-1844 and tell them to support Medicaid expansion. Take a stand for our patients, our hospital and the community. Tell them to take the money and save lives!
SEIU Florida Calls Out Cynical House Healthcare Expansion Proposal
Press Statement: April 11, 2013 Contact: Rebecca Wakefield rebecca@seiu1991.org SEIU Florida denounces an increasingly absurd attempt by House Republican leadership to avoid accepting billions of dollars of federal money for healthcare expansion while professing concern for the health of low-income families. State Rep. Richard Corcoran’s bill, dubbed Florida Health Choices Plus, echoes the cynical andContinue reading “SEIU Florida Calls Out Cynical House Healthcare Expansion Proposal”
SEIU Florida Outraged at Florida Legislature’s Inaction on Medicaid Expansion
Press Statement: April 9, 2013 Contact: Rebecca Wakefield rebecca@seiu1991.org With three weeks to go before the end of the regular legislative session, both the Florida House and the Senate leadership have opted not to move discussion of Medicaid expansion. If the inaction continues, Florida risks losing $51 billion in tax dollars from the federal governmentContinue reading “SEIU Florida Outraged at Florida Legislature’s Inaction on Medicaid Expansion”
SEIU Local 1991 Welcomes New Member FRB Member
Jackson Health System nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals welcomed the news that former state representative and county commissioner Larry Hawkins has been nominated to the Jackson Health System Financial Recovery Board.
Joint Statement in Support of Ryder Trauma Center
SEIU Local 1991 president Martha Baker, RN, and JHS president and CEO Carlos Migoya issued a joint statement in support of Ryder Trauma Center. “Protecting the public’s investment by preserving our legal rights to expand Ryder’s trauma system in an era of competition is the right thing to do.”
Don’t privatize Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center — Read the Miami Herald Letter to the Editor!
The Sept. 16 editorial, Another Jackson ‘emergency,’ supporting the Jackson Financial Recovery Board’s pursuit of privatization misses the points made at the public hearing by community activists and former and current legislators about the unique and highly specialized services at the Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center. In fact, the editorial completely ignored the existence of the Rape Treatment Center.