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Essentia Health

A collection of 14 issues

Essentia East Market APPs honor union anniversary, call for return to bargaining table

“By ignoring our union and refusing to come to the bargaining table, Essentia is ignoring the very people who are essential to the care and well-being of patients across Minnesota. We deserve better than this. We deserve respect.” -- Neissa Boehm

Essentia workers vote overwhelmingly for union representation

As part of the Minnesota Nurses Association, the Essentia Advanced Practice Providers anticipate having a greater influence over their professional practice, working conditions, and the safety of their patients.

Nurses at Essentia Health St. Mary’s-Superior Wisconsin Clinic announce organizing, filing for union representation

Nurse organizing follows similar successful efforts by nurses in Duluth at Essentia 1st, 2nd and 3rd Street Clinics and Patient Flow Hospital, Miller Hill Surgery Center and Solvay Hospice House, and ongoing organizing by Essentia East Market Advanced Practice Providers (APPs).

Nurses at Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic 3rd Street and Patient Flow hospital nurses to announce organizing, filing for union representation

“Our love for nurturing and providing the best patient care is often overlooked when the nurses do not have a voice at the table. This will allow us to fight for not only ourselves, but also what’s best for our patients.” -- Dee Budish, RN at Essentia 3rd Street Clinic

Essentia Miller Hill Surgery Center nurses, Essentia Solvay Hospice House nurses and staff vote to unionize with MNA

“We felt we weren’t being listened to. So we organized so that we could have our voices heard.” -- JeanAnn Norton, LPN at Essentia Solvay Hospice House

Nurses at Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic 2nd Street vote unanimously for union with MNA

Nurses win union election, and will bargain collectively for better patient care and nurse working conditions

Nurses union attacks hospital executive pay after legislative defeat — and other labor news

By Max Nesterak, Minnesota Reformer Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly roundup of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week; the Minnesota Nurses Association goes after hospital executive pay at the state Capitol as it faces its own internal strife; Minneapolis considers various pay models for

Nurses succeeded in drive to organize despite aggressive anti-union tactics by Essentia executives

The new MNA member nurses at Duluth Clinic 1st Street join thousands of fellow union nurses at other Essentia facilities, and at other healthcare systems in Duluth and the Northland, as part of the 22,000 MNA members in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Iowa.

Essentia Health in the news; Quote Me, Howie: Fred Friedman

Minnesota Community Measures issues its Health Care Quality Report annually in three separate findings. This report is the third of those three parts for care delivered in 2022.

Health care unions fight stagnant pay and rising burnout — and other labor news

By Max Nesterak, Minnesota Reformer Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. Essentia nurse practitioners and physician assistants file for union More than 350 Essentia Health nurse practitioners and other advanced practice providers could vote to unionize with the Minnesota

Convert St. Mary's Medical Center into senior housing

Why isn't the former St. Mary's Medical Center being easily and affordably converted into affordable senior housing units? Needed plumbing and electrical conversion costs would be minimal, compared to new construction to help to meet this growing need in our community. Remember are few years back

Essentia Health ushers in new era of patient care with grand opening of replacement St. Mary’s

St. Mary’s is a five-star hospital as rated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It features the area’s only Level I Trauma Center. Patient care will move from the legacy hospital to the replacement St. Mary’s on Sunday, July 30.

Essentia nurses to picket new St. Mary’s Medical Center on Friday amid ongoing staffing concerns

Hospital executives at Essentia Health, St. Luke’s and M Health Fairview are pursuing mergers while CEO compensation skyrockets. In 2020, Essentia CEO David Herman took a $1 million raise, and now takes home $2.7 million in compensation each year.

Quote Me, Howie: Ryan Kern on the Duluth Airshow

"We could not have done this without the support of our amazing sponsors and partners who allow us the ability to put on a world-class event in Duluth that pumps in more than $20 million dollars into our region’s economy!" -- Ryan Kern