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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital nurses are calling for staffing standards there at the location in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. They took their proposal to UPMC leadership yesterday in a contract negotiation meeting. According to the nurses, this would provide better care, and the standards they are looking for are the same as those they say are done at other hospitals in Pittsburgh.  Nurses from departments across the hospital testified about what they are seeing and they also stated the need for a better nurse-to-patient ratio. Some of that includes following the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses standards.