Year: 2014
Save the Date for October 29 Hearing on ICU Staffing Law
Athol Hospital Nurses Vote to Unionize with Massachusetts Nurses Association/NNU
ATHOL, Mass. — In an election held among the 47 registered nurses at Athol Hospital on Friday, RNs voted to join the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United, the state’s largest… Read more »
MNA Files Complaint Against Brigham & Women’s Hospital to Stop Mandatory Flu Vaccination Policy
The Massachusetts Nurses Association has filed a
MNA Analysis of Consultant’s on the Need for Inpatient Services in North Adams
Following the sudden closure of the 121-bed North Adams Regional Hospital (NARH), which left thousands of residents without access to local healthcare, Berkshire Medical Center (BMC) purchased NARH – now… Read more »
Cooley Dickinson Hospital Nurses Plan Informational Picket
MNA Statement Regarding the Long-Awaited Consultant’s Report on Health Services for Northern Berkshire County
The Report Misses the Mark by Tying the Provision of those Services to Reimbursement Levels and Access to Federal Funding. Despite finding that the residents served by former NARH have… Read more »
Leominster Hospital CEO Refuses to Meet With RNs
The nurses at UMass Memorial/Health Alliance Leominster Hospital were alarmed to learn this week that their CEO Deborah Weymouth has refused to meet with them to hear their serious concerns… Read more »
Leominster Hospital RNs to Deliver Petition to CEO on Sep. 8 (11:45 a.m.) in Opposition to Proposed Staffing Cuts, Service Consolidation and Increases to Nurses’ Patient Assignments that they Believe Will Jeopardize the Safety of Patients
Join the MNA in NY for the People’s Climate March
Buses to leave the MNA’s Canton office at 6 a.m. on Sept. 21; follow-up stop in Worcester on the way to NYC. To learn more or to reserve a seat,… Read more »
RNRN Ebola Alert–Urgent need for West African healthcare workers and survey for US RNs