New Jersey lawmakers can help by passing the Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act

HPAE, the largest union of health care workers in NJ, is 50 years old. Its president reflects on lessons for workers — and patients

Tentative agreements reached at Cooper University Medical Center and Englewood Hospital

Nurses at three NJ hospitals authorize strike action as contract negotiations are set to end Friday

Workers and leaders are urging lawmakers mandate 'safe' patient-to-staff ratios

The main sticking point in the months-long dispute was patient-nurse staffing ratios

Growing trend of patients verbally or physically attacking nurses, other health care workers

Some surprise that public hospital not steering $100M-plus initiative

Advocates are frustrated. One knocks budget allocation as a Band-Aid

State’s biggest health insurance company says it must restructure to compete, but critics warn coverage for 2M residents could be imperiled

A proposed bill would set enforceable nursing staff ratios at different levels

Newark campus would get $1.8B overhaul to modernize patient care

Elective surgeries postponed, ambulances diverted elsewhere

Since pandemic, labor organizing has grown to include new workers

Joel Brooks is running to represent the west side of Jersey City as a Democratic socialist

Interview with HPAE president Debbie White

Some of the state’s largest hospitals and long-term care systems have instituted COVID-19 vaccine mandates

The CDC’s director tried to clarify the issue this weekend, they claim the new mask guidance is science-based and not politically motivated.

The union representing more than 14,000 nurses and health care workers across the state is beginning contract negotiations for its members. Briana Vannozzi asked Debbie ...