Local Nurses voted on Monday, Nov. 1, in favor of a contract with Mid-Columbia Medical Center that will give them a 10 percent pay increase during the next three years. And MCMC congratulated itself and the Oregon Nurses Association. It took 4 months of working out of contract and descriptions of burnout working conditions before the deal was made.

Local nurses to rally on Thursday, Oct. 7 prior to mediated negotiations with Mid-Columbia Medical Center over staffing, scheduling and wages. A recent petition and letter pushed under the door of MCMC Executive Director Dennis Knox states “the administration of Mid-Columbia Medical Center is failing us, our patients and our entire community.”