2004 News
- 12.22.2004 | Health Care News—DPH Approves Sale of St. Vincent Hospital/MetroWest Medical Center—Community Coalition Raises Concerns
- 12.15.2004 |
Study shows hospital charges are increasing, fueling inflation - 12.15.2004 |
Past practice: can the employer change the rules in the middle of the game? - 12.15.2004 |
Avian flu: a dreadful possibility on the horizon - 12.14.2004 | Worcester School Nurses Will Leaflet/Picket Outside the School Superintendent's Christmas Party on Dec. 15th from 2 – 4 pm at the Durkin Administration Building
- 12.06.2004 | UMass Lowell Awarded $2M Grant to Protect Home Healthcare Practitioners
- 11.30.2004 | Statement by Karen Higgins, President of the Massachusetts Nurses Association Regarding the Proposed Hospital Industry Nurse Staffing Bill
- 11.29.2004 | MNA/Coalition to Protect Mass. Patients Re-Files Safe RN Staffing Bill to Regulate RN-to-Patient Ratios in State's Hospitals
- 11.17.2004 | Position Statement On the "Magnet Recognition Program for Nursing Services in Hospitals" and Other Consultant-Driven Quality Improvement Projects that Claim to Improve Care
- 11.15.2004 | Tauro calls for "hold" on plans to close Fernald
- 11.15.2004 | Fairness at Fernald
- 11.08.2004 | Federal court to hear motions on DMR oversight to ensure adequate care for the severely disabled
- 10.15.2004 |
Magnet status: the union perspective - 10.15.2004 |
Carbon monoxide detector saves lives of MNA staffer and her family - 10.15.2004 |
Influenza vaccine helps protect you - 10.15.2004 | 2003/2004 annual report from the Congress on Health and Safety
- 10.12.2004 | Members Vote to Approve Five-Year Plan and Modified Dues Funding at Annual Business Meeting in Boston
- 10.12.2004 | OSHA, Mass. Nurses Association and Mass. Division of Occupational Safety Sign Alliance to Protect Nurses/Health Care Workers
- 10.12.2004 | State representative Galvin and Kafka host ceremony to honor late World War II Nurse
- 09.27.2004 | MHA Survey of RN Vacancy Rates Misses the Mark on Nursing Crisis
- 09.22.2004 | Taunton State Hospital Survey: "97 percent of RNs/Health Professionals Believe Management is Dangerously Understaffing the Hospital—Risking the Safety of Patients, Staff as a Result"
- 09.22.2004 | MNA supports Jobs With Justice as "Health Care Action Week" Ramps Up
- 09.15.2004 |
Researching your employer online - 09.15.2004 |
Know your rights: Weingarten rights - 09.15.2004 |
Environmental update: household prescription medication waste is posing an environmental hazard - 09.15.2004 |
CDC releases NIOSH Alert: preventing exposures' to hazardous drugs in healthcare setting - 09.15.2004 |
A second look at formaldehyde in the workplace: Some possible alternatives - 09.15.2004 | Pollution Prevention
- 08.25.2004 | Regional Meetings in September to Learn About MNA 5-Year Plan/Dues Increase
- 08.18.2004 | MNA testifies at hearing on nursing home abuse and neglect
- 08.15.2004 |
MNA participates in UMass Lowell worker health & safety research project - 08.15.2004 |
Task Force on Workplace Violence and Abuse Prevention releases position statement - 08.15.2004 |
Life after a workplace assault: how one nurse was treated by her employer - 08.04.2004 | Massachusetts Nurses Association Unit 7 of Health Care Professionals
- 08.02.2004 | Legislative Session Comes to End without Final Passage of Safe RN Staffing Legislation
- 08.02.2004 | 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.
- 07.29.2004 | 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
- 07.22.2004 | Senator Steven Tolman Announces Approval Of Bill To Mandate Single Payer Health Care Study
- 07.15.2004 | Congratulations to all of us!!! Winning Vote Taken 7.14.2004 on Massachusetts' Health Care Constitutional Amendment
- 07.15.2004 | Plaintiffs allege worsening conditions at Fernald Center as they seek renewed court oversight
- 07.15.2004 |
Hospitals: will they be ready when the terrorists are? - 07.15.2004 |
OSHA Targeted Inspections going on right now in Massachusetts hospitals - 07.07.2004 | New Study in Journal Health Affairs Links Excessive Overtime and Poor
- 06.17.2004 | As Health Care System Fails More Americans… MNA/Nurses to Participate in June 19th Bridge Demonstration for Affordable Health Care for All
- 06.15.2004 | Patient Care Advocates Disappointed by Conference Committee’s Failure To Include Safe Staffing Pilot Program in Final Budget
- 06.15.2004 | Is Your RN License Up for Renewal in late July and early August?
- 06.02.2004 | Massachusetts Nurses Association Endorses Isaac BenEzra for Governor’s Council Seat
- 06.02.2004 | OSHA Targeted Inspections going on right now in Massachusetts hospitals
- 05.25.2004 | RNs at Marlborough Hospital to Hold Informational Picket on May 27
