APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Spain
A healthcare worker looks on in one of the intensive care units where coronavirus patients are treated at the Ramon y Cajal hospital in Madrid, Spain, Spain, Friday, April 24, 2020. Manu Fernandez / Associated Press
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Spain
A healthcare worker looks on in one of the intensive care units where coronavirus patients are treated at the Ramon y Cajal hospital in Madrid, Spain, Spain, Friday, April 24, 2020. Manu Fernandez / Associated Press

Healthcare workers are calling on Illinois hospitals to address a staffing shortage crisis by upping pay and hiring more people.

Reset is joined by a union leader and healthcare worker to talk about what’s happening in healthcare right now and what needs to change.

GUESTS: Anne Igoe, vice president of health systems at Service Employee International Union Healthcare, or SEIU Illinois

April McNeil, SEIU union steward and unit secretary at Northwestern memorial hospital

APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Spain
A healthcare worker looks on in one of the intensive care units where coronavirus patients are treated at the Ramon y Cajal hospital in Madrid, Spain, Spain, Friday, April 24, 2020. Manu Fernandez / Associated Press
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Spain
A healthcare worker looks on in one of the intensive care units where coronavirus patients are treated at the Ramon y Cajal hospital in Madrid, Spain, Spain, Friday, April 24, 2020. Manu Fernandez / Associated Press

Healthcare workers are calling on Illinois hospitals to address a staffing shortage crisis by upping pay and hiring more people.

Reset is joined by a union leader and healthcare worker to talk about what’s happening in healthcare right now and what needs to change.

GUESTS: Anne Igoe, vice president of health systems at Service Employee International Union Healthcare, or SEIU Illinois

April McNeil, SEIU union steward and unit secretary at Northwestern memorial hospital