Tell Brown University & Brown University Health:
Stop belittling the patients and healthcare workers at Rhode Island Hospital
Listen to our radio ad.
See our billboard.
Brown University Health CEO John Fernandez misled Rhode Islanders.
(And Brown University President Christina Paxson is complicit in his healthcare hypocrisy.)
When Lifespan affiliated with Brown University, CEO John Fernandez and Brown President Christina Paxson talked a big game about improving patient care and treating healthcare workers fairly. But their actions at Rhode Island Hospital have spoken much louder than their words.
What they say
“Most patients won’t even notice [the name change from Lifespan to Brown University Health] except that hopefully we’ll have more doctors and more nurses and more scientists working on the problems that face them.”
-Brown University Health CEO John Fernandez
“Brown has an important role to play in ensuring that the people of Rhode Island continue to have opportunities to access high-quality treatment in their home state.”
-Brown University President Christina Paxson
“For our employees, nothing changes – benefits are the same, job’s the same – it doesn’t change. It’s really just a name change.”
-Brown University Health CEO John Fernandez
What they do
In the midst of a nursing shortage, Brown University Health is failing to offer nurses and health professionals a fair contract at Rhode Island Hospital, failing to enforce their own zero-tolerance safety rules to keep healthcare workers safe, fighting against safe staffing levels, driving healthcare workers away and potentially compromising patient care.
Brown University, with a $7 billion dollar endowment, has remained silent while the hospital system with their name on it is insulting patients and healthcare workers with contract offers that could lower staffing levels, drive nurses out of state, and negatively impact patient care.
Less than one year after proclaiming healthcare workers’ benefits won’t change, CEO John Fernandez is trying to significantly slash the benefits of Rhode Island Hospital nurses and health professionals, offering an unaffordable health insurance plan that is far worse than what they currently have.
Take Action Today
Email CEO John Fernandez, Rhode Island Hospital President Sarah Frost, and Brown University President Christina Paxson.
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Contact the United Nurses and Allied Professionals if you have any questions or if you want to get involved.
