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Dallas Fort Worth Concerned Citizens Panel ■ 2504 W. Park Row Suite B5, Box 128 Pantego, TX. 76013 ■ dfwccp@gmail.com

Are Dallas and Fort Worth Hospitals Safe?

Is Profit Placed Before Care?

Does Your Hospital Have Safe Ratios?

If you can not answer all three of these questions then you and your family need to come to the public hearing on safe nurse to patient ratios. Dallas Fort Worth Concerned Citizens Panel is holding an open public hearing on the issues of safe nurse to patient ratios to answer the three questions above and to openly discuss this issue.
The organizations invited to provide testimony are The Texas Hospital Association, Dallas County Hospital Board, Tarrant County Hospital Board, Dallas Regional Health Center Mesquite, National Nurses Organizing Committee, RNs, and Both Dallas and Tarrant County Commissioners Courts. The National Nurses Organizing Committee and several area RNs have accepted the invitation to testify and will testify at this hearing on safe-patient ratios. It is important for citizens to show up and hear the testimony and why our hospitals are unsafe. Citizens are welcome to submit testimony on problems they or their family has had at hospitals.

Come hear why RNs are in constant threat of termination for simply standing up on behalf of their patients in the name of providing the best quality care.

The Hearing will convene at 10 am on Aug. 15th 2007 at 1527 North Galloway Drive in Mesquite, Texas at the Mesquite Fine Arts Center. The Panel will take testimony from 10am-1pm at the latest and the will deliberate for until around 2 pm and render an opinion. During panel deliberations, Registered Nurses and NNOC Representatives will take questions and comments in a town-hall style public forum. This will be an excellent opportunity for the public, Nurses, and the NNOC to examine ways in which we can make sure that patients get the optimal care that they deserve.

Vice Chair Harriet Irby DFW Citizens Panel

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Nurses it is time to stand and fight. It is time to organize and be heard. It is time to be counted. We all know there is nothing safe and no harbor insite in Safe Harbor. Stand up for your patients and stand up for your selfs.

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Nurses do you want safer working conditions? Do you want safe patient ratios? The ncome out and bring friends and family and join the brave nurses who will testify and show your support this is chance to get safe Nurse to patient ratios in Texas and in your counties.

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Dallas Fort Worth Concerned Citizens Panel ■ 2504 W. Park Row Suite B5 Box 128 Pantego, Tx. 76013 ■ dfwccp@gmail.com
Approved For Immediate Release:
DFW CCP is pleased to anounce that the National Nurses Organizing Committee Has excepted the invitations to bring testimony about safe ratios at Texas Hospitals. California Nurses Association has excepted the DFW CCP invitation to testify on how the ratios work in California. DFWCCP is also announcing that the three wrongfully fired RNs from Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite have agreed to testify on ratios and why DRMCM was unsafe in the ICU that night. We have received several letters of written testimony from area RNs who are scared to testify in public for fear of retaliation and being “Group One” or “Black Balled” from nursing at the bedside here in Dallas Fort Worth. DFWCCP is announcing along with the NNOC and California Nurses Association have singed a Binding Protection from Anti –Retaliation Agreement and will work with the DFWCCP if any medical professional testifies on theses issues and is retaliated for their testimony to help protect them and help with the investigation.
Are Dallas and Fort Worth Hospitals Safe?

Is Profit Placed Before Care?

Does Your Hospital Have Safe Ratios?

If you can not answer all three of these questions then you and your family need to come to the public hearing on safe nurse to patient ratios. Dallas Fort Worth Concerned Citizens Panel is holding an open public hearing on the issues of safe nurse to patient ratios to answer the three questions above and to openly discuss this issue.
The organizations invited to provide testimony are The Texas Hospital Association, Dallas County Hospital Board, Tarrant County Hospital Board, Dallas Regional Health Center Mesquite, National Nurses Organizing Committee, RNs, and Both Dallas and Tarrant County Commissioners Courts. The National Nurses Organizing Committee and several area RNs have accepted the invitation to testify and will testify at this hearing on safe-patient ratios. It is important for citizens to show up and hear the testimony and why our hospitals are unsafe. Citizens are welcome to submit testimony on problems they or their family has had at hospitals.

Come hear why RNs are in constant threat of termination for simply standing up on behalf of their patients in the name of providing the best quality care.

The Hearing will convene at 10 am on Aug. 15th 2007 at 1527 North Galloway Drive in Mesquite, Texas at the Mesquite Fine Arts Center. The Panel will take testimony from 10am-1pm at the latest and the will deliberate for until around 2 pm and render an opinion. During panel deliberations, Registered Nurses and NNOC Representatives will take questions and comments in a town-hall style public forum. This will be an excellent opportunity for the public, Nurses, and the NNOC to examine ways in which we can make sure that patients get the optimal care that they deserve.

Vice Chair Harriet Irby DFW Citizens Panel







Dallas Fort Worth Concerned Citizens Panel ■ 2504 W. Park Row Suite B5 Box 128 Pantego, Tx. 76013 ■ dfwccp@gmail.com
Monday, July 30, 2007
Texas Hospital Association
6225 East Highway 290
Austin, TX 78723
Dallas Regional Medical Center
Attention: Chief Nursing Executive
1011 N. Galloway Avenue
Mesquite, TX 75149

Richard Stephens NNOC DFW
1728 Ridgeview Drive
Arlington, TX. 76012

Joe Schuman NNOC/C.N.A.
2000 Franklin Street
Oakland, CA. 94612

Ed Bruno NNOC/C.N.A.
2000 Franklin Street
Oakland, CA. 94612

Dallas County Hospital Board
411 Elm Street
Dallas, TX. 75202

Dallas County Commissioners Court
411 Elm Street
Dallas, TX. 75202

Tarrant County Hospital Board
1500 South Main Street
Fort Worth, TX. 76104

Tarrant County Commissioners Court
100 East Weatherford Street
Fort Worth, TX. 76196

Dear Invitees:

The Dallas Fort Worth Concerned Citizens Panel will be hosting a public hearing and discussion on Nurse-to-patient ratios and patient advocacy in our hospitals. The latter issues have been receiving greater attention in our communities, as well as in healthcare policy circles. That said, we would like to get your perspective on these issues.

Toward that end, we cordially invite you or your designee to join us at the hearing and present your position on ratios and patient advocacy. We feel that a productive hearing only helps to raise the discourse in our nation’s ongoing healthcare dialogue. It also uniquely positions the Metroplex as one of the first regions in Texas and beyond to bring attention to the issues in an open, public forum.

The hearing will take place on Wednesday, August 15th from 10am-2pm at the Mesquite Arts Center Rehearsal Hall, 1527 North Galloway Avenue. Please RSVP before Wednesday, August 15th. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at the email or physical addresses above.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.


Sincerely,
Harriet Irby



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Vice Chair, Dallas Fort Worth Concerned Citizens Panel

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Victory was one For All Texas Nurses. Public Panel Voted for Safe Ratios for Nurses in Hospitals.