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The helpful new New York DoH guidance on N95 respirators (below) is in contrast to our MDPH’s failure to support MNA’s request to set N95s as the standard for staff… Read more »

On Thursday it was 63,500 swine flu doses, and hundreds of thousands in need. So who will get the vaccine? Inside the world of the state officials and doctors who… Read more »

Why Is Cooley Dickinson Hospital/VNA Threatening LayoffsAfter Showing $8 Million in Profits? In the last fiscal year Cooley Dickinson Hospital has shown a profit of $8 million.  As the fiscal… Read more »

Associated Press November 06, 2009 Some of New York’s biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism… Read more »

Reminder – Nominate Your Favorite Nurse for the NSO Outstanding Nurse Search! In September, NSO launched the Outstanding Nurse Search, giving much deserving nursing professionals like you the opportunity to… Read more »

Informational Picket At Cooley Dickinson Questions Need For Layoffs The Registered Nurses of the Massachusetts Nurses Association bargaining units at Cooley Dickinson Hospital and the Visiting Nurse Association of Cooley… Read more »

Attached are federal waiver documents that Massachusetts hospitals will be permitted to follow in the event they activate their disaster protocol. The waivers affect HIPAA, Emtala, use of alternate space… Read more »

Network changes, delays vex clients By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff  |  November 5, 2009 The Patrick administration has trumpeted its salvaging of health insurance for 28,000 legal immigrants, but the… Read more »