Filipino nurses

Fil-Am nurses in California protest against a hospital’s plan to increase nurse-to-patient ratio, an increase that is expected to affect safe staffing in various hospital units including labor and delivery, neonatal ICU, and specialty care. But...

A new documentary sheds light on the long hours nurses spend in America’s emergency departments as they work hard to save as many lives as they can. Don Tagala tells us more....Read More

Filipino nurses have been among frontline workers who have courageously treated COVID-19 patients despite risks to themselves and to their families. In this report by Bev Llorente, we hear from some of these nurses who shared...

Union organizers and Fil-Am groups rallied with thousands of nurses in a five-day strike to protest failed labor negotiations with the Alameda Health System or AHS. Nurses who spoke with Rommel Conclara for this report say...

A Fil-Am whose frontliner aunts died due to COVID-19 is speaking up after hearing President Donald Trump’s comments on his speedy recovery and his continued downplaying of the disease. She says while the president tells people...

Some Filipino nurses in Las Vegas know firsthand the gravity of the pandemic having contracted COVID-19 themselves. One says he’s disappointed at how President Donald Trump has downplayed the virus’ threat. The other agrees with the...

NEW YORK — The wedding vow “in sickness and in health” has never been more meaningful until the pandemic. They were nursing students when Herwyn Silva and Vanessa Baral met 8 years ago, and on the...

As Los Angeles shut down beaches and pulled the plug on fireworks during Fourth of July, local Filipino Americans were honored during Grand Park’s virtual block party. Among the familiar faces, along with a familiar taste....

As California caregivers keep working on the frontlines of the pandemic, and with their facilities continuing to be hotspots for COVID-19 — they’re desperate for state lawmakers to pass a bill that guarantees them hazard protections....

Among the hardest-hit sectors in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic are long-term care homes, with over 1,800 resident deaths and 7 staff deaths — including a Filipino personal support worker, or PSW. SEIU union president, Sharleen...