The House budget restored funding and added language preserving beds at Tewksbury Hospital, but the Senate Ways and Means budget does not provide the full funding to maintain current beds,… Read more »
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SUPPORT AMENDMENT #753 for Tewksbury Hospital: Maintaining Beds, Staffing, and Quality of Care
NECN News Covers Alarming Results RN Survey on State of Patient Care in Mass Hospitals
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North County Cares Coalition Members to Speak at the North Adams Council on Aging/Mary Spitzer Senior Center on the Health Needs of Northern Berkshire County and the Rationale for Restoration of a Full Service Hospital to Meet Those Needs
Video: Patients In Mass ICUs Should Demand One on One Care from Their RN – It’s the Law
When your loved ones are in the ICU in any Massachusetts hospital, they should expect one on one attention from an RN – it’s the law! This includes all types… Read more »
Nurses Launch Campaign Today to Educate the Public About a New Law Guaranteeing Mass. Hospital Patients One on One Care from RNs in All ICUs
Here’s a great photo (see below) from the MNA’s Annual Clinical Conference at the DCU Center in Worcester this morning, as we kick off our “ICU Law: One Nurse to… Read more »
MNA Launches ICU Law Sticker Campaign
One in Four MA Registered Nurses Report Patient Deaths That Are Directly Attributable to Unsafe Patient Assignments, The Same Number Wouldn’t Want Their Family Member Cared for on the Unit in Which They Work
85% of RNs agree that the quality of patient care in Massachusetts hospitals is suffering due to unsafe patient assignments including 61% of RNs who are aware of patient complications… Read more »
The Problem With Satisfied Patients — The Atlantic Runs Powerful Expose Decrying the Hospital Industry’s Focus on Patient Satisfaction Surveys Over Real Patient Care
The Atlantic Monthly recently ran an amazing expose of the fallacy behind the health care industry’s focus on patient satisfaction as opposed to real efforts to improve patient care. The… Read more »
MNA Telephone Town Hall Draws Thousands of Members
On April 29, the Massachusetts Nurses Association Board of Directors hosted a Telephone Town Meeting, where they conducted a live survey of MNA members to assist in determining the next… Read more »
Massachusetts Nurses Association Statement Urging Ebola Protection Measures Be Implemented for Massachusetts Healthcare Workers and the Community
Ebola in the US:On September 20, 2014, Thomas Duncan travelled to Dallas from Liberia. He had helped to transport an Ebola-infected neighbor of his in Liberia four days earlier. On… Read more »
