Tens of thousands of workers to unite on June 5 for "health care for all!"
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More than 50 organizations begin workplace mobilization for reform…
UMass Medical School RNs Will Hold an Informational Picket on June 4
As Contract Talks Stall Over Failure to Provide UMMS RNs the Same Pay and Benefits as Nurses at UMass Memorial Health Care As Promised in Merger Legislation While UMMS Nurses… Read more »
MNA Applauds State Senate Budget Proposal for Protecting Vital Public Health Programs
CANTON, Mass. — A s voters across the state continue to express that health care is one of their top priorities and concerns as taxpayers, the Massachusetts Nurses Association today… Read more »
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 »
