From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterMay 2009 Edition
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The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Employee Free Choice Act update
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterMay 2009 Edition The furor over the Employee Free Choice Act has reached a fever pitch in our nation’s capitol. This bill would make it easier… Read more »
Year after year, tulips will be a reminder of the MNA’s international success
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterMay 2009 Edition
Disaster/emergency preparedness: what you need to know
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterMay 2009 Edition By Debra Shontz-Stackpole, RN
As U.S. launches swine flu emergency, Worcester eliminates staff that protects city
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterMay 2009 Edition As the nation mobilized to confront the intensifying outbreak of swine flu, a coalition of more than 30 civic, community, labor and health… Read more »
Bargaining Unit Updates
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterMay 2009 Edition Tobey HospitalThe bargaining unit nurses at Tobey Hospital barely ratified a memorandum of agreement with the hospital as part of an economic reopener… Read more »
Discussing patient safety act with Sen. Moore in Worcester
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterMay 2009 Edition
Mass. health model inspires key senator (MS)
Panel considers creating agency to ease insurance By
State seeks to revamp way doctors, hospitals are paid (MS)
Massachusetts soon may embark on another bold healthcare experiment, with a state commission poised to recommend this month that insurers radically change how they pay doctors and hospitals. Commission members… Read more »
The deadly epidemic no one’s addressing (MS)
MASSACHUSETTS taxpayers are being robbed. Families are having their loved ones stolen from them and taxpayer dollars are lost in a system wrought with inefficiencies and gaps in care. This… Read more »