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CHA Issues Alerts on Employment Status, Nurse Staffing Ratio Penalty Bills

For CEOs, Government Relations Executives

Yesterday, CHA issued two Advocacy Alerts: one on Senate Bill (SB) 227 (Leyva, D-Chino), which creates unnecessary and duplicative penalties for hospitals that don’t meet nurse staffing rations, and one on Assembly Bill 5 (Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego), which threatens hospitals’ ability to contract with independent businesses — such as nurse registries, staffing agencies or other employers — for critical patient services.

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