UC Davis nurses file complaint with state
Registered nurses at the UC Davis Medical Center, frustrated by discussions with hospital officials over staffing levels, filed a formal complaint with state regulators on Thursday, accusing the hospital of routinely violating safe-staffing laws.
The complaint is similar to one filed in 2005, a year after the state law went into effect, in which the state Department of Health Services sided with the California Nurses Association.
"We have staffing problems in all UC hospitals, but there is no hosptial in the UC system that has this gross and deliberate understaffing," said Beth Kean, director of the University of California division for the nurses union. "We've tried to work with the administration at UC Davis and they have been resistant."
After its 2005 investigation, the state directed the hospital to take corrective action. The medical center said it would review its staffing levels to comply with the 1999 law that required minimum nurse-staffing ratios.
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