Plan to Cut Staff Comes as the ED Nurses Struggle to Confront a Growing Flu Epidemic and After NWH and Partners has Posted a Healthy Profit in Recent Years Wellesley,… Read more »
Category: Uncategorized
Newton Wellesley Hospital Nurses Go Public With Concerns About Patient Safety in Response to Plan by Partners to Cut Staffing and Increase Patient Loads for Nurses in the Hospital’s Busy ED
HPC Releases DRAFT of ICU Staffing Regulations
The Health Policy Commission’s Quality Improvement Protection Committee today approved its “Proposed ICU Staffing Regulations” governing the implementation of the new law that sets safe patient limits on nurses’ patient… Read more »
Vote NOW for the MNA’s Natalie M.Pereira for Woman of the Year!
Natalie M. Pereira, a fellow MNA member and the bargaining unit chairperson at Leominster Hospital, has been nominated by the Sentinel & Enterprise for its "Woman of the Year Award."… Read more »
RNs at Cape Cod and Falmouth Hospitals to Picket on Dec. 11 over Management’s Efforts to Implement Dangerous Changes in How Nursing Care is Delivered
The registered nurses at both Cape Cod and Falmouth Hospitals, who are affiliated with the Massachusetts Nurses Association and National Nurses United (MNA/NNU), plan to conduct two informational pickets on… Read more »
Leominster Hospital RNs to Hold Candlelight Vigil to Protect Patient Safety on Dec. 10
Nurses know better than anyone that even in the midst of the joyful holiday season, loved ones, friends and neighbors all too often get sick and require hospital care, which… Read more »
Region 5 Council Meetings Schedule for 2015
MNA R5 council meetings are scheduled the third Tuesday of each odd-numbered month. Meetings will be held at MNA Headquarters at 6pm. Here is an updated list of meetings: January… Read more »
Berkshire Medical Center Nurses To Hold an Informational Picket on Dec., 10 to Protest Unsafe Staffing, Excessive Patient Assignments and Punitive Work Environment
For the Record: The true legislative intent on of An Act Relative to Patient Limits in All Hospital Intensive Care Units
During a recent hearing before the Health Policy Commission, the governmental agency charged with developing regulations surrounding the ICU patient limits law, a representative speaking on behalf of the Mass… Read more »
