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MASSACHUSETTS NURSE NEWSLETTER :: November/December 2007

The Patient Safety Act: Now what?
Urge Public Health Committee members to vote for a favorable release of H.2059

H.2059 The Patient Safety Act hearing was held on Oct. 24 before the Joint Committee on Public Health

Contact members of the Joint Committee on Public Health and urge them to release H.2059 with a favorable report

We need your help! At right is a list of members of this Committee, along with information about the districts they represent.

If you live in one of these districts, it is imperative that you let your elected officials know that you need them to support this legislation. Please call your representative and senator and ask them for a quick and favorable release of H. 2059, the Patient Safety Act. If you are not sure who your representative is, visit www.capwiz.com/ massnurses and type in your address. Please call your legislator today!

Don't know your legislator? Go to www.capwiz.com/
massnurses
and enter your address.

 

  state house
 
Joint Committee on Public Health
 

Sen. Susan C. Fargo/Chair (Democrat)

  • Telephone: 617.722.1572
  • Email: Susan.Fargo@state.ma.us
  • Represents:3rd Middlesex: Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lexington, Lincoln, Sudbury, Waltham, Weston

Sen. Cynthia Stone Creem/Vice Chair (Democrat)

  • Telephone: 617.722.1639
  • E-mail: Cynthia.Creem@state.ma.us
  • Represents: 1st Middlesex & Norfolk: Brookline, Newton, Wellesley Sen.

Stephen J. Buoniconti (Democrat)

Sen. Harriette L. Chandler (Democrat)

  • Telephone: 617.722.1544
  • E-mail: Harriette.Chandler@ state.ma.us
  • Represents: 1st Worcester: Worcester, Berlin, Boylston, Clinton, Holden, Northborough, Paxton, Princeton, West Boylston

Sen. Robert L. Hedlund Jr. (Republican)

  • Telephone: 617.722.1646
  • E-mail: Robert.Hedlund@state.ma.us
  • Represents: Plymouth & Norfolk: Cohasset, Duxbury, Hingham, Hull, Marshfield, Norwell, Scituate, Weymouth

Rep. Peter J. Koutoujian/Chair (Democrat)

Rep. Alice K. Wolf/Vice Chair (Democrat)

Rep. Timothy J. Toomey Jr. (Democrat)

Rep. Anne M. Gobi (Democrat)

  • Telephone: 617.722.2210
  • E-mail: Rep.AnneGobi@hou.state.ma.us
  • Represents: 5th Worcester: Barre, Brookfield, Hardwick, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Petersham, Phillipston, Spencer, Templeton, Ware, West Brookfield Rep.

Jennifer M. Callahan (Democrat)

Rep. Mary E. Grant (Democrat)

Rep. Jennifer L. Flanagan (Democrat)

Rep. Carl M. Sciortino, Jr. (Democrat)

Rep. Cleon H. Turner (Democrat)

Rep. Robert S. Hargraves (Republican)

Rep. Donald F. Humason Jr. (Republican)

 
         
 

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