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Safe Staffing Press Conference and
Legislative Hearing at the State House
June 18th, 2003

     

Julie Pinkham, MNA
Executive Director,
presents findings of RN
study at press conference.



Rep. Christine Canavan, RN,
lead sponsor of the
MNA safe staffing bill
testifies at the hearing.


Rep. Rachel Kaprielian
testifies to her experience
as a patient and her
support for the bill.


Nurses lobby their
legislators to support the
safe staffing bill
.


Nurses pack the room
where the press conference
was being held.


Safe Staffing Supporters



Oncologist Leo Stolbach
testifies in support of
H.1282. [Testimony
]

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MNA President Karen Higgins at the press conference.





Julie Pinkham shocks the
press and crowd with the
statistics from the survey.


After the press conference,
individual nurses were
interviewed by reporters.


Channel 7 reporter
interviews Whidden
Hospital nurse
and MNA member
Joanne Bartoszewicz.


Senator Richard Moore,
Rep. Peter Koutoujian,
Health Care Committee
Staff Director Charlene
Deloache, Rep. Christine
Canavan, and Senator
Bruce Tarr



Hundreds of nurses pack
the hearing room.



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Rep. Brian Knuttila testifies.   Reps. Christine Canavan
and Rachel Kaprielian



Patient testifies in
support of the bill.



Karen Higgins testifies.

[Testimony]



Dorothy McCabe, MNA
Director of Nursing and
Career Services,
delivers her testimony.



Julie Pinkham [Testimony]



Whidden Hospital nurses
posing with the legislator
from their district, Rep.
Edward Connolly.








 

 

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