Claim: National Nurses Organizing Committee, a labor union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States, fought to protect the ratio law in late 2004 and noted on the effects of altering the law on health care such as the possibility of failure to rescue.
Evidence: The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), is a labor union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States. Arnold Schwarzenegger sought to roll back key portions of the law in late 2004 at the request of the California hospital industry, CNA led a successful year-long campaign to challenge Schwarzegger and protect the law. When California Gov. After extensive adjustment for patient and hospital characteristics, the study revealed statistically significant relationships between the nurse-to-patient ratio and 30-day mortality and failure to rescue (FTR — that is, failure to prevent a clinically-important deterioration, such as death or permanent disability, from a complication of an underlying illness or of medical care) in all three states.