Affiliate: Planned Parenthood North Central States

covers Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

 

Locations: 16. Covered here: 13.  

 

Minnesota doesn’t do state inspections of this kind of facility.

Patients who feel a need to file a complaint: 
Minnesota File a Complaint

Entire Affiliate

Planned Parenthood Nebraska

Article in The New York Times

Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis

by Katie Benner, February 15, 2025

 

 

For months last year at the North Central States affiliate . . . an understaffed nursing department did not upload sexually transmitted infection test results into charts, and patients wrongly believed that their results were negative when they did not hear back . . . 

Grace Larson, a former Planned Parenthood nurse in Minnesota who was fired while trying to unionize the staff, said that clinics were operating like “a conveyor belt” for patients. She said that employees sometimes administered expired pain medication or the wrong medications as they scrambled to move people in and out. She said it was not uncommon for patients to be taken to the wrong room and prepped for the wrong procedure.

“We would catch it when a patient would say, ‘Why am I in a room with an ultrasound machine and a sedation nurse for a Pap smear?’ or when a nurse would come in and be like, ‘Wrong room, wrong patient,’” Ms. Larson said . . . 

But in many clinics, they also draw blood and take vital signs. Medical assistants in Ohio, Minnesota, Arizona, California, New York, Texas, Indiana and Illinois said they practiced blood draws and I.V. placements for an hour or so on a fake arm and then on a colleague before performing the procedures in clinics. But they said they sometimes ran into problems, and some said they did not know what to do when they arose. 

Planned Parenthood Minnesota Union

Article in the Minnesota Reformer

Planned Parenthood affiliate fires two union leaders, disciplines entire bargaining team

by Max Nesterak, March 21, 2023

Excerpts: 

Planned Parenthood North Central States has fired two members of the elected bargaining team in charge of negotiating wages, benefits and working conditions for hundreds of newly unionized employees across five states.

The other 11 bargaining team members have received “final written warnings,” which says they can be terminated immediately if they violate any other policy. It’s a uniquely severe form of discipline that longtime employees say they hadn’t heard of before . . . 

Yet union leaders say Planned Parenthood’s hardball approach is reminiscent of giant corporations like Amazon, Starbucks and Tesla, which have waged expensive campaigns to prevent the proliferation of unions among their rank-and-file workers.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Phillip Cryan, executive vice president for SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa.

“It has been really concerning to see the way that the organization’s leadership has decided to treat the elected members of their bargaining team in ways we’ve literally not seen any other employer ever do,” he said.

Article in the Union Advocate

After ‘unprecedented’ disrespect from Planned Parenthood, union plans to escalate contract campaign

September 8, 2023

Excerpt:

“For my mental health, I am leaving – like so many other leaders of this bargaining team have done since receiving their final notices,” Clark said, choking back tears. “Unfortunately, so are many of our other coworkers. I don’t know anyone who isn’t actively looking for employment elsewhere, and that isn’t hyperbole.”

For Clark and others, the final straw came during negotiations last week. Previous sessions had yielded “slow but steady progress,” health educator and LGTBQ care coordinator Elizabeth Wolfe said, and at a meeting in July, management pledged to bring a new health insurance proposal to the next session.

But instead of new health care language, Wolfe said, PPNCS executives offered the union a choice between a three-year contract with “minimal wage increases,” or one with bigger raises that clawed back several agreements reached earlier in negotiations, including longevity pay, increases to paid time off and floating holidays, expanded bereavement leave and new professional development opportunities.

“What the negotiators and leaders of our union have told us is that they’ve never seen an employer make a proposal to undo so many substantial pieces of progress already won through the bargaining process,” Wolfe said.

Article in Capital & Main: Investigating Money, Power and Society

Unionizing Planned Parenthood

by Becca Andrews, March 25, 2024

 

 

Excerpt: 

Tensions escalated after workers voted to unionize in July 2022. Contract negotiations were slow, say workers, and coupled with management hostility. “The union-busting started as soon as we unionized,” Larson said. 

In spring 2023, Planned Parenthood North Central States management informed Larson and 11 other members of the union’s bargaining team that “final warnings” had been placed in their personnel files after management apparently obtained a copy of an encrypted chat indicating that workers were organizing. The next infraction at work, even a paperwork error, could be grounds for firing someone. When Larson sent a personal email last March to a partner organization accusing a co-worker of assault, there was no warning left. Larson said the manager of human resources fired her “on a five minute Zoom call.” SEIU filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Planned Parenthood North Central States, charging that the affiliate had fired Larson in retaliation for union organizing; the case remains open with the National Labor Relations Board.

Management’s resistance to the union’s demands was so profound that in fall 2023, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota rescinded its endorsement of the state representative who’d recently taken on the job of CEO, Ruth Richardson. 

 

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Sexual Abuse Planned Parenthood

Frederick

MN Court of Appeals Decision Affirming Conviction – Frederick

Excerpts: 

[Page 2] Based  on  the  stipulated  evidence, the  district  court found Frederick guilty  of first-degree criminal sexual conduct . . . Frederick was 42 years old  and  the  complainant,  S.H.,  was  14  years  old  when  the  conduct  occurred . . . review 1A used condom in a dated, sealed bag with S.H.’s name on it was found in Frederick’s bedroom and DNA testing matched S.H. and Frederick.

[Page 5] Frederick  took  her  to Planned Parenthood to get birth control.

Note: Because Planned Parenthood didn’t report this to authorities as required by law, the abuse continued. 

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