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The MNA and the nursing profession have lost a true champion and powerful advocate with the death last week of Kate Maker, RN, long time leader at the MNA, a powerful union activist and a passionate fighter for social justice.
In The Wake of a Shocking Report Showing 195,000 Preventable Deaths Per Year in Nation’s Hospitals, Mass. Nurses & Patient Advocates Make Final Push to Pass Safe Staffing Bill
Majority of Deaths Detailed in Report Result from Complications Caused by Poor RN Staffing Legislators Have Until July 31st to Pass Legislation to Establish Safe, Minimum RN-to-Patient Ratios in Hospitals… Read more »
Senator Steven Tolman Announces Approval Of Bill To Mandate Single Payer Health Care Study
The MNA applauds the legislature for taking action today to approve a bill that mandates study of a single payer health care system to replace the current dysfunctional free-market system… Read more »
Congratulations to all of us!!! Winning Vote Taken 7.14.2004 on Massachusetts’ Health Care Constitutional Amendment
Plaintiffs allege worsening conditions at Fernald Center as they seek renewed court oversight
Hospitals: will they be ready when the terrorists are?
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterJune/July 2004 Edition By Larry Ferazani Emergency preparedness in the U.S. In 1986, Congress passed the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, also known… Read more »
OSHA Targeted Inspections going on right now in Massachusetts hospitals
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterJune/July 2004 Edition
New Study in Journal Health Affairs Links Excessive Overtime and Poor
Working Conditions to an Increase in Medication Errors by NursesReport Underscores Need for Passage of Safe RN Staffing Bill
As Health Care System Fails More Americans… MNA/Nurses to Participate in June 19th Bridge Demonstration for Affordable Health Care for All
Thousands expected for symbolic Longfellow Bridge Walk and Rally on Boston Common CANTON, Mass. — On June 19, 2004, the Massachusetts Nurses Association will join more than 80 other community… Read more »
Patient Care Advocates Disappointed by Conference Committee’s Failure To Include Safe Staffing Pilot Program in Final Budget
Conferees Miss Opportunity to Protect PatientsUrge Ways and Means Committee to Act on Staffing Bill before End of Session CANTON, Mass. – The Coalition to Protect Massachusetts Patients announced today… Read more »
