4 hospitals, health systems raising workers' pay

4 hospitals, health systems raising workers' pay unknown

The following hospitals and health systems have announced or shared plans for raising workers' pay this year.

Note: This is not an exhaustive list. 

1. Members of the Michigan Nurses Association at ProMedica Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital in Adrian approved their tentative agreement for a new contract. The contract includes a new pay scale that reaches more than $50 per hour by the end of the three-year deal, according to the union.

2. Members of SEIU 121RN approved a new labor contract with Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare. The deal includes cumulative across-the-board wage increases of 17.6% over three years, according to the union.

3. Employees across University of New Mexico Hospital campuses will receive retention bonuses and wage increases, marking their first raises in more than a year. UNM hospital employees in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties will receive a $600 retention incentive and an average wage increase of about 3%, according to a Jan. 26 news release from the Albuquerque-based health system.

4. Members of the New York State Nurses Association at Montefiore Mount Vernon (N.Y.) and Montefiore New Rochelle (N.Y.) hospitals approved new three-year labor contracts. A union news release said the contracts, approved Dec. 28 and Dec. 29, include "historic wage increases that bring these Montefiore nurses in line with pay standards of the Montefiore Bronx facilities and improvements in working conditions, including strengthened safe staffing enforcement language."