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Advocates for the Retarded Take Fight to Save Fernald Center to the Senate and Present Cost Study Showing that No Savings are Realized When State Facilities are Closed
MNA Points to Pending Closure of Waltham Hospital as Evidence of the Failure of the Market-Driven Health Care System in Massachusetts
Calls for Legislative Action to Prevent Future Closings of NeededHospitals To Guarantee Life-Saving Care to those in Need CANTON, Mass. – The recent decision by the Waltham Hospital Board of… Read more »
Advocates for the Retarded to Present Research Showing That No Money is Saved When the Retarded are Moved from State to Community Facilities
May 21 Presentation at 10 a.m. will coincide with release of Senate budget MANSFIELD, Mass. — Advocates for residents of The Fernald Center and other state-operated facilities for the severely… Read more »
MNA Urges DPH to Suspend Smallpox Vaccinations, But to Proceed with Educating and Training Workforce
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterMay 2003 Edition In the wake of serious cardiac-related complications related to the vaccination of health care workers for the smallpox pre-event vaccination plan, as well… Read more »
Details of Latex glove legislation
A Massachusetts bill has been drafted: An Act Relative To Latex Glove Safety Chapter 111 of the general laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 217 the following new… Read more »
Coalition to Protect Mass. Patients Formed to Fight for Safe Staffing – 58 organizations endorse MNA’s proposed legislation; Legislation to Provide Safe RN Staffing Wins Broad Support
Survey Shows 82% of the Public Support the MeasureMore than half of Legislators and 58 organizations endorse MNA’s proposed legislation to Regulate RN to Patient Ratios in Mass Hospitals State… Read more »
Mass. Nurses Association Condemns Tenet-SEIU Neutrality Pact Supports Calif. Nurses Assn. Challenge of Deal as an Illegal Attempt to Deny Employees Choice that Could Harm Patients
CANTON, Mass. — The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) joined the California Nurses Association (CNA) in condemning a deal announced on Monday by Tenet Healthcare and the Service Employee International Union… Read more »
Smallpox and Bioterrorism
MNA Urges DPH to Suspend Smallpox Vaccinations, But to Proceed with Educating and Training Workforce In the wake of serious cardiac-related complications related to the vaccination of health care workers… Read more »
House Budget Includes Amendment to Prevent Closure of Fernald Center and Other Facilities for the Severely Disabled
The State House of Representatives took steps yesterday (see News story below) to protect the state’s most vulnerable disabled residents with the passage of an amendment to the state budget… Read more »
As National Nurses Week Begins, Massachusetts Nurses Association Membership Reaches All-Time High, More than 22,000 Registered Nurses and Health Professionals Belong
CANTON, Mass. — As nurses seek to improve staffing ratios, working conditions and to achieve fair pay and benefits as a means of improving patient care in the Commonwealth, a… Read more »
