Daily News | Pennsylvania takes step to become the second state to require nurse staffing minimums in hospitals
based on the level of the care delivered. It passed Tuesday out of the Health Committee in the state House of Representatives, but its prospects of becoming law this year remain uncertain.
The legislation would require one nurse for each patient in active labor, for example, and two nurses for every patient in intensive care. Hospitals failing to meet the requirement would be fined.“Nurses deserve to have an assignment that they feel they can deliver the best possible care to their patients,” said Rep. Bridget Kosierowski, a Democrat from Lackawanna County, who worked as a registered nurse prior to joining the House. “That’s why we are here today.
Unions representing nurses throughout the state lobbied in support of the bill, including the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals that represents nurses in a number of Philadelphia-area hospitals.hospitals, the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, and multiple health systems opposed the requirement. Critics contend that a one-size-fit-all mandate lacks flexibility for hospitals’ financial, staffing, and patient care needs.
A similar version of the bill had been proposed in the previous legislative session. But the then-Republican chair of the committee, Rep. Kathy Rapp of Warren County,
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