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From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition Donna Kelly-Williams, RN, a resident of Arlington and a staff nurse at Cambridge Health Alliance, has been elected president of the Massachusetts Nurses… Read more »

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 »

John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, December 14, 2009 It didn’t take the newly formed National Nurses Union long to announce itself. On Tuesday, representatives from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses… Read more »

From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition

The US Senate healthcare reform process is clearly off the rails, with proposals being thrown about willy-nilly.  Meanwhile, an elegant, efficient, and politically expedient amendment awaits its vote: The Medicare-for-all,… Read more »

From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition

Dear Friend, Thank you for signing the petition I posted last summer asking Congress to pass a single-payer national health care program. I would like to let you know that… Read more »

From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition On Oct. 31, Sue Rowe—a longtime MNA member, Wilmington school nurse and former bargaining unit chairperson—was honored, in abstentia, by the Massachusetts School… Read more »

From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition

Hospitals accept ambulance rule; Wait times don’t spike for patients By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff  |  December 14, 2009 A new state policy requiring crowded hospital emergency rooms to accept… Read more »