LAWRENCE — In January, Lawrence General Hospital interventional cardiologists will join forces with their peers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston to significantly enhance cardiac catheterization and emergency angioplasty… Read more »
Year: 2009
Lawrence General, Beth Israel team up
Health bill is a step forward, so pass it now and fix it later
December 22, 2009 THE SENATE health bill has no government-plan option to keep a lid on the rates private insurers can charge. It offers no subsidies for illegal immigrants. Its… Read more »
Big hospitals flush with cash despite industry’s dire warnings
Critics say large hospital operators that are amassing cash are doing so at the expense of patients By Bruce JapsenTribune reporterDecember 22, 2009 If you listen to hospital lobbyists in… Read more »
Tell the President and Congress: Don’t tax nurses’ healthcare coverage
Nurses are deeply disappointed with the many flaws in the healthcare bill now advancing in the U.S. Senate, especially the failures to assure universal coverage for all Americans, effectively control … Read more »
Nurses Say Senate Bill Entrenches Chokehold of Insurance Giants
From The Nation
MNA Board Releases Certified Result for Secret Ballot Membership Vote In Favor of Dues Proposal to Support Affiliation with National Nurses United
CANTON, MASS. – The Massachusetts Nurses Association Board of Directors today released the certified result of the secret ballot vote by the membership in favor of a dues increase to… Read more »
Video Interviews from NNU Convention
Nora Watts
Dec 16 09 from MDPH re H1N1 Vaccine Voluntary Recall of pediatric 0.25 mL
Recognizing nursing excellence: MNA 2009 award winners
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition
Safe RN Staffing: Fact vs. Fiction
From the Massachusetts Nurse Newsletter November/December 2009 Edition Opponents have spent years and millions of dollars spreading disinformation about the Patient Safety Act, which would limit the number of patients… Read more »