The staffing problem at Providence Everett continues to worsen. This past month it culminated with a sentinel event in the emergency department. This event, along with others can be avoided with proper staffing!

Time and time again in nurse staffing committee, nurses have made staffing suggestions to the Hospital administration. Instead of taking into consideration our recommendations, they have ignored us, cancelled additional meetings needed to review the many CSIs submitted, and are now planning to restructure the Staffing Steering Committees which will favor the Hospital.

Enough is enough! Providence needs to be held accountable and answer our questions about staffing. We have submitted a detailed information request to the Hospital to better understand the factors which lead to the sentinel event in the emergency department.

Providence has failed to resolve our staffing problems and is failing the community and patients.

We call on Providence Everett to be transparent and collaborate with nurses in staffing committee! Our patients deserve better! We need safe staffing conditions now!

We will be following up with next actions in the next two weeks. In the meantime, our most effective tool is to file a CSI form or file a DOH complaint. We highly encourage you to use these avenues to report staffing issues.

UFCW Staffing Complaint Form

Washington State DOH Healthcare Agencies and Facilities Complaint Process