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Index:3 12/28/07 11:17 AM Page 19 tSq SEISMIC SAFETY Falling Down on the Job. How hospitals have procrastinated making needed seismic upgrades to their facilities and are endangering their workers, patients, and the community. December p. 10. SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE The Simple Solution of a Single-Payer System. January/February p. 4. Single-Payer Bill HR 676 Up Again. January/Febuary p. 8. Health Insurance is Good Medicine. The national coordinator for Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) speaks about single-payer. April p. 5. For America's Sake. Bill Moyers implores us to spread the vision of a country that leaves no one out. April p. 18. RNs Host Historic Rally for Guaranteed Healthcare. May p. 4. Illinois' first single payer bill, HB 311, becomes an attached bill. May p. 7. Comparing International Health Systems. A panel of international RNs discusses government health plans with the 2007 House of Delegates. October p. 13. Unions for Single-Payer. Labor organizations in support of HR 676. March p. 5. Single-Payer Plan Reintroduced in California. March p. 5. Rachel Moehlmann, a St. Louis RN, raises money for a 10-year-old cancer patient and rallies other area nurses to support HR 676. March p. 8. Dr. Quentin Young Explains why National Fremont-Rideout Health Group RNs go on a one-day strike. September p. 8. Strike Against Sutter. 5,000 RNs go out on a two-day strike against Sutter Health. October p. 4. Fremont-Rideout RNs Stage Second Strike. October p. 6. A delegation of NNOC nurses visits RNs at the Appalachian Regional Healthcare picket lines in Kentucky. November p. 10. Sutter RNs Strike Again. December p. 4. Appalachian RNs Strike Over Understaffing. December p. 6. tTq STRIKES Sutter Nurses Ready to Strike Back in Contract Talks. July/August p. 5. Fremont-Rideout Health Group RNs authorize a strike in the face of stalled negotiations. July/August p. 8. Sutter RNs Fed Up, Authorize Strikes. September p. 6. TECHNOLOGY Tech-tonic Disaster. New health information technology systems are supposed to save time and improve patient care. But RNs are finding these systems pose huge dangers to patients, and to nursing. January/February p. 10. Register Now for our Newest CE Class! Wall Street or Well Street? Patient advocacy in the new world of healthcare Today, healthcare in the United States stands at a crossroads. Americans agree: the healthcare industry is too costly and fails to provide adequate patient care. In the upcoming 2008 presidential election year, politicians and business leaders will claim they have the solution: health insurance reform and the technological restructuring of hospital care. This course will examine the central alternatives in these debates: a single-payer system or public subsidies for private health insurance; and technological innovations that support rather than replace skilled nursing at the bedside. Finally, we will consider how nurse advocates can lead politicians and industry leaders to a "new world" of healthcare that is financially sound and that puts patients first. Classes will be held Jan. 22 to April 25 in various cities throughout California. For more information and to register for the class online, visit www.calnurses.org/ceclasses.