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By GRACE FRIEDMAN<\/b>
\n<\/span>Medill Illinois News Bureau<\/span>
\n<\/span>news@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Members of Teamsters Local 743 rallied inside the Illinois State Capitol, calling for increased staffing in health care facilities and urging lawmakers to support bills aimed at improving patient care through safer staffing levels. (Photo by Grace Friedman, Medill Illinois News Bureau)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

SPRINGFIELD \u2014 Health care unions continue to rally for legislation to address understaffing they say strains hospitals and threatens both patient safety and staff well-being.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lawmakers are considering <\/span>the Hospital Worker Staff and Safety bill, <\/span><\/a>which would establish mandatory nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and increase support for underfunded hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n

The proposed legislation, <\/span>Senate Bill 21 <\/span><\/a>and <\/span>House Bill 3512<\/span><\/a>, aims to establish minimum staffing ratios in hospitals and fund critical safety-net hospitals across the state. Advocates with health care worker unions have been holding a series of rallies at the Capitol in support of the legislation in recent weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur hospitals are staffed unsafely,\u201d Kawana Gant, a certified nursing assistant at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, said at a recent Statehouse rally. \u201cI have worked short shifts where there are 30 patients and only one CNA on the floor. How can you give quality care? It is not safe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gant, who has worked at Ingalls Hospital for nearly 30 years, says she has watched many of her colleagues quit due to the mental and physical toll the short staffing has had on their bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an opportunity for legislators to hear us, to know that these hospitals are not safe.\u201d Gant said.<\/span><\/p>\n

But similar versions of the proposed legislation have been introduced at the Statehouse for recent years and have failed to gain traction. Generally backed by unions representing nurses, such as the Service Employees International Union, previous staffing ratio measures have run into opposition from hospital groups that say they\u2019re unworkable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The proposed legislation filed this year has yet to receive a hearing in a substantive committee, meaning it will be an uphill battle for it to move by the time the legislature adjourns at the end of the month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like previous versions, it would mandate that hospitals \u201cemploy and schedule sufficient staff to ensure quality patient care and safety.\u201d In addition, hospitals would have to share annual staffing metrics with the Illinois Department of Public Health to help ensure they are at proper staffing levels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill gives you a real voice,\u201d Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, said to rallygoers. \u201cIt gives you a way to speak up when things are unsafe for you and the people who you care for.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, not all lawmakers are convinced that now is the right time to implement staffing ratios.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can mandate the staffing ratios, but if those professionals don\u2019t exist, what have you really done?\u201d said Rep. Norine Hammond, R-Macomb. \u201cWe\u2019ve been trying for years to get more people into the health care field, especially after COVID, and we\u2019re just not there yet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hammond expressed concern that enforcing strict staffing requirements without enough qualified workers in the pipeline could place unrealistic burdens on hospitals. She warned that such mandates might unintentionally strain facilities already struggling with labor shortages and lead to adverse financial consequences, especially for smaller or rural hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hospital trade groups echo those concerns, <\/span>calling the legislation unworkable, burdensome<\/span><\/a> and an ineffective way to solve a problem that should be addressed by the specific needs of each hospital or care center. The Illinois Health and Hospital Association, the Association of Safety Net Community Hospitals and the Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network issued a statement saying they strongly oppose HB 3512.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They said it was introduced \u201cas a backdoor effort pushed by organized labor to impose unworkable, government-imposed health care staffing ratios in Illinois.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis proposal would relegate the essential, complex and nuanced protocols established to safely and efficiently staff a hospital 24\/7\/365, to a series of burdensome forms and onerous paperwork that hospitals would be required to submit to the (IDPH) to establish minimum staffing standards for every hospital worker, in each hospital unit,\u201d the groups said in the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, according to a recent <\/span>Service Employees International Union survey<\/span><\/a> of Chicago area hospital workers, 70% of respondents reported understaffing, and over 25% reported unsafe or unmanageable workloads. Additionally, in the same survey, 47% of the respondents stated an intent to leave their jobs soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To help enforce safety standards, the legislation introduces \u201cassignment despite objection forms\u201d that give hospital workers the opportunity to document and report any assignments that they believe are unsafe. Hospitals are then required to provide this information to IDPH, which would have to publish an annual report on all these staffing metrics. The legislation would also require IDPH to \u201cmake recommendations for minimum staffing standards for hospital workers in each hospital unit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to protecting staff, advocates said this bill would allocate proper essential resources to underfunded hospitals around the state, including Mount Sinai Hospital on Chicago’s West Side, a Level 1 trauma center that helps underserved and violence-impacted communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMount Sinai saved my son’s life,\u201d said Sonya Brown, who traveled from Chicago to Springfield recently to advocate for the safety-net hospital that treated her son after he was shot seven times in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was shot in the head, he was shot in the neck, he was shot in the chest, the abdomen and shoulder, and the arm,\u201d Brown said. \u201cIf they wouldn’t have gotten to him in time, he would have died.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mount Sinai serves as a health care provider for communities on both the South and West sides of Chicago, areas that experience some of <\/span>Chicago’s highest rates of gun violence<\/span><\/a>. If the hospitals are not protected by measures in this legislation, advocates said, the victims in these neighborhoods risk longer travel times to alternative trauma centers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They said the bills would help allocate essential resources and enforce staffing standards at safety-net hospitals to continue effectively serving vulnerable communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our staff is overworked,\u201d said Jessica Mendoza, a nursing assistant at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines. \u201cA lot of our veterans are coming into the VA to get help with their health, but we do not have the staff to provide it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mendoza, who has worked at the Hines VA Hospital for nearly two years, said that due to the low number of staff, they rarely get a break. She noted that the lack of sufficient staffing makes it difficult to provide the level of care that the veterans need.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The health care workers and advocates gathering in Springfield at the recent rally emphasized that without sufficient staffing and resources, the quality of patient care throughout Illinois hospitals will continue declining, and worker burnout will escalate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey expect you to do the job of five or six people but pay you for one.\u201d Sen. Lakesia Collins, D-Chicago, said at the rally. Prior to joining the General Assembly, Collins was a CNA in nursing homes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As the legislation stagnates at the Capitol, hospital workers and advocates said they plan to keep organizing and sharing their stories. They said they’re calling on lawmakers to prioritize frontline health care workers and the patients who depend on them.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Grace Friedman is a student in the Medill Illinois News Bureau, a program at the Medill School of Journalism that provides local news outlets with state legislature and government coverage. She can be reached at <\/span><\/i>gracefriedman2025@u.northwestern.edu<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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