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16085 Cleveland Road Miami BeachHOME ADDRESS:
Apt No.Home No./Street City
Florida 33141
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305-620-6555PHONE:
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martha@seiu1991.org
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1601 NW 8th Avenue
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Martha Baker, RN
1685 Cleveland Road
Miami Beach, FL 33141
305-510-7542
martha@seiu1991.org
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
• SEIU Local 1991, 2008 – Present, Became President and Executive Director
Jackson Health System, Miami, FL
1992 - 2019, Nurse Manager, Trauma Intensive Care Unit
1987 - 1992, Nurse Liaison, Surgical Intensive Care Unit
1984 - 1987, Staff RN, Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Ohio State University Hospital Columbus, Ohio
1979 – 1984, Staff RN, Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Professional Associations:
• Serving as SEIU Local 1991 President
Public, political, and contract advocate for membership of 5,500 healthcare employees.
Cofounder of Labor Management Partnership at Jackson Health System to ensure quality outcomes for
our patients, and financial sustainability for our Public Health Syste m.
• Serving as SEIU Florida State Council Interim President
• Serving as SEIU National Nurse Alliance Chair
Public and political advocate for Nurse professional issues. Represent over 80,000 nurses nationwide.
• Member of the Jackson Health System Obligation Bond (G.O.B.) Citizen’s Advisory Board
Appearances and Other Projects:
• March 2019, Speaker at the Healthcare Quality National Collaborative in Chicago.
• October 2004 “Current Concepts and Controversies in the Treatment of HIV”
Online / Webcast Course Co-Developer
• October 2004 Agency Safe Staffing
Program Speaker on Safe Ratio Implementation.
• January 9-10, 2004 Nova Southeastern University (NSU) hosted its third annual conference on health care access,
entitled: "A Glimpse of the Future of Health Care in America 2004." interactive community forum comprised of a
distinguished panel of experts.
• December 13, 2003 as part of presidential campaign. Martha Baker, RN and president of the SEIU Local 1991,
was in charge of introducing Democratic candidate Howard Dean.
• October 2003 SEIU National Nurse Alliance Conference
Co-Chair and Opening / Closing Speaker, Breakout Teacher on Staffing Crisis and Safe Staffing Ratios .
Martha Baker, RN, BSN
President of SEIU Healthcare Florida Local 1991
Martha Baker is President of SEIU Healthcare Florida Local 1991, which represents over 5,500
nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals at Jackson Health System. Ms. Baker, the founding
Nurse Manager of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital, one of the
largest public hospitals in the nation, is also the chair of the national 80,000-member SEIU Nurse
Alliance. She has been an advocate on a wide range of patient care issues at the local and
national levels. She has been an advocate on a wide range of patient care issues at the local and
national levels. From her unique perspective as an ICU nurse and labor movement activist, Ms.
Baker has testified before Congress on numerous occasions of the challenges facing the nursing
profession today, including setting safe nurse staffing levels, implementing safe lifting, banning
the unsafe practice of mandatory overtime in hospitals, protecting health care workers from the
dangers of air-borne and blood-borne infectious diseases, and other policy, safety, and regulatory
matters. Ms. Baker has also testified before the U.S. Senate on the President’s controversial
proposals to vaccinate health care workers against the possibility of smallpox.
Since her graduation from Ohio State University’s School of Nursing in 1979, Ms. Baker has
dedicated her life to effective patient advocacy and improving the quality of patient care in our
nation’s hospitals. She currently resides in Miami Beach, Florida, where she is a prominent RN
leader and nurse voice for union and non-union nurses in the state.
SEIU Healthcare Florida Local 1991 is the largest public healthcare union in Florida and is
affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, the largest and fastest-growing union
in the country with more than two million members.