Spectrum News 1 reached out to at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin for comment. Nurses are also complaining of chronic staffing shortages, making it difficult to provide quality care to patients, as well as “a revolving door of new graduates getting hired, receiving their hands on-training at ASMCA, and then leaving the hospital.” AUSTIN, Texas The union representing 900 registered Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin nurses on Thursday announced they overwhelmingly voted to allow a one-day strike. We believe it is our duty to exercise our union power to ensure Ascension invests its deep financial resources back into its staff, patients, and the Austin community,” said Matthew Clark, a registered nurse in the intensive care unit. “It’s morally distressing to work tirelessly for a nonprofit, Catholic system that consistently puts profits over its own patients and staff. The union further claims the hospital is “putting profits over patients.” Ascension, which owns the hospital, is a large, nonprofit Catholic health system. “Nurses are sending a message to management with this overwhelming strike authorization that we are ready to do what it takes to win a strong contract that protects our patients’ safety.” “Our patients can’t wait any longer,” Lindsay Spinney, a registered nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit, is quoted in the news release. NNOC/NNU in a news release said nurses are protesting “ASMCA management’s unacceptable and delayed responses to nurses’ contract proposals, which would ensure the highest level of patient care in Austin, by improving nurse recruitment and retention so that every unit has safe staffing levels.” Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin in Austin, Texas, is a full-service hospital with a Level IV Trauma Center and 24/7 emergency care. Nurses would provide at least 10 days of notice before striking. Seton Medical Center Austin, part of the Seton Healthcare Family system, has named Tad Hatton vice president and COO. Nurses voted on Wednesday and Thursday, with 98% voting to strike, NNOC/NNU said. Nurses say hospital management's response to contract proposals has been "unacceptable" and "delayed" and that the hospital frequently deals with staffing shortages.At least 10 days of notice would be provided ahead of the strike, the union said AUSTIN, Texas The number of medical residents and fellows in Travis County affiliated with Ascension Seton and Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin has risen 55 since 2015.The strike would be the largest nurse strike in the history of Texas, according to the union for the nurses.Nurses at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin this week voted to authorize a one-day strike.
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