Critical Update

Twenty-five years ago this year, staff nurses from Crozer Chester Medical Center, Temple University Hospital, Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital, Lower Bucks Hospital, Suburban General Hospital, Brooke Glen Behavioral Hospital, and the now shuttered Jeannette District Memorial Hospital came together to form a new Union – a real Union for bedside caregivers. We left other Unions and organizations to create the Union that we wanted – a member-driven Union that would fight passionately for patient care and those who provide it.

We’ve done that, beautifully. But make no mistake: We’re not done.

“The goal of PASNAP going forward is to bring the beauty and the strength of all that we envisioned and created 25 years ago, not just to every PASNAP Local but to every hospital across the state,” says PASNAP President Maureen May, RN – “to improve patient care and to ensure resources and protections for frontline caregivers everywhere there are patients and everywhere there are caregivers.”

Over our 25 years, we took risks. We welcomed fights. And we still do, today. We have matured but not mellowed – and we never will!

Every day, every shift, we step forward – together – to improve the healthcare experience for all involved. Our Union – the Union we created together because the member-driven, fighting Union we wanted didn’t exist – affords us a voice. And we will continue to use that voice and grow its power, together.

Check out this 25th Anniversary issue of CRITICAL UPDATE to delve more into our past – and to learn more about what we’re planning for our future. Click on the cover to open the issue.