HPAE Position Papers & Publications
HPAE’s Public Policy department has produced a number of publications and “White Paper” reports on key issues facing our union, including staffing, the negative effects of for-profit healthcare, and the failure of the New Jersey Department of Health to ensure patient safety, access to quality care, and workers’ rights.
News
HPAE White Paper on Meadowlands Hospital Cited in Spotlight Article
HPAE's White Paper on Meadowlands Hospital, produced in 2012, received prominent mention in an article published today in NJ Spotlight on the hospital.
HEALTHCARE WORKERS UNION ACCUSES STATE OF INADEQUATE MONITORING
State officials have allowed accountability and transparency to lapse as for-profit firms have gained control of a growing number of hospitals, according to a report by a union representing nurses and other healthcare workers.
Union asks about debt in Rutgers-UMDNJ plan
A union representing health-care workers is raising more concerns over the proposed restructuring of higher education in New Jersey, including questions about the apportionment of debt between Rutgers U. and UMDNJ.
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Resources
- Code Red Position Paper II: Voices from direct patient care staff calling for mandated staffing ratios in New Jersey’s hospitals
- Code Red Position Paper I: Understaffed. Overworked. Unsafe for everyone.
- HPAE Position Paper: Fulfilling the Historic Charge of University Hospital in Newark
- Hackensack Meridian Health: Profits Before Safe Care?
- Exposed & At-Risk: New Jersey healthcare workers reveal how our safety systems failed them during the COVID-19 pandemic
- HPAE 2024 Convention Report
- New Members Guide: Union Strong in Unprecedented Times
- HPAE White Paper - The Christie Administration's Department of Health: Failure in Enforcement, Accountability and Transparency
- HPAE White Paper - Meadowlands Hospital and the State of New Jersey: Failures of Oversight Put Profits Before Patients at a Community Hospital
- HPAE White Paper - The Reorganization of UMDNJ: GETTING IT RIGHT
- HPAE White Paper - Protecting Our Nation's Blood Supply and Defending the Rights of Blood Service Workers
- HPAE White Paper - Setting the Standards
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