Year: 2002

Your efforts have made an impact! Our campaign in May to gather and deliver more than 80,000 public signatures has caught the eye of the legislature, particularly the Senate, which… Read more »

It’s official. Waltham Hospital, formally known as Deaconess Waltham Hospital (a CareGroup-owned facility), has been transferred to a new, locally controlled Board of Trustees, marking a remarkable conclusion to a… Read more »

Safe Staffing Petition Drive Gathers 80,000 Signatures News Coverage of MNA’s Ambulance CaravanDrive to the State House with Safe Staffing Petitions  The headline under a photo in Friday, May 10th’s… Read more »

Mass. Nurses to Divert Ambulances to the State House on May 9With Delivery of Thousands of Public Signatures in Support of the Safe Staffing Bill MNA Ambulance Caravan will make… Read more »

Here is some the press generated by the New England Journal of Medicine Study and Report published this week (5/29/02) concerning the impact RN staffing has on patient care. In… Read more »

Low RN Staffing Levels Put Patients at Risk for Life-Threatening Infections, Shock and Bleeding MNA Applauds Journal For Demonstrating Positive Impact Nurses Have on Patient Care and the Need for… Read more »

Kudos to Beverly Beckham of the Boston Herald for her powerful column (see below) in support of nurses and the nursing profession. She is a journalist who has experienced the… Read more »

Nurses fighting for HB 1186, Quality Patient Care/Safe Staffing legislation, have won the support of the Springfield Union News. This Sunday’s paper included an editorial in support of the legislation,… Read more »

Do You Want Safe Staffing ?Sign a Petition and Drive this Bill into LawPetition Drive is "on" Thousands of Nurses Launch Statewide Petition Drive from May 1– 7To Garner Public… Read more »

Attention MNA Members and Supporters of MNA (Especially members from MNA Unit 7)We Need Nurses to Participate in Rally and March to Demand a Humane State Budget DATE: Tuesday, April… Read more »