Patty Eakins of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses explains that hospitals that serve the working poor would suffer especially and could close under GOP plan Story Transcript Aaron Maté: It’s The Real News. I’m Aaron Mate. We continue to look at the fallout from the House Republican passage of the American Healthcare Act, which […]
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Patricia Eakin has been a registered nurse for 40 years. For her entire career she has worked at the bedside as a direct care RN. She is Certified Emergency Nurse and spent the last 17 years as a staff nurse at Temple University Hospital's ER. She is the President of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, a union of 8,300 mainly registered nurses.