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10.24.07
Patient Safety Advocates of all Ages Urge Passage of
“The Patient Safety Act” at State House Hearing
Hundreds Come Together to Expose Dangers of Hospital Understaffing
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10.24.07
Massachusetts Patients Say Nurse Understaffing Compromises Patient Safety
Statewide Survey Finds More Than 235,000 (>1-in-4) Patients Per Year Feel Their Safety Has Been Compromised in Bay State Hospitals
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10.19.07
New Radio Ads Highlight Need for Passage of H. 2059
In anticipation of the important Oct. 24th State House hearing before the public health committee on the Patient Safety Act (H. 2059), the Coalition to Protect Massachusetts Patients and the MNA have launched a radio ad campaign to draw attention to the current patient safety crisis and the need for passage of the safe staffing bill as a solution.
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09.28.07
Financial
Report Shows Hospitals Continue to Post Record Profits in 2007
Approaching $500 Million in Second Qtr – A 35 % Increase Over
2006
During the Same Time Period, Poor RN Staffing Contributes to Thousands of Preventable Infections, Causing Patients to Suffer While Hospitals’ Coffers Grow
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09.18.07
Advocates
for Patient Safety Rally on the South Coast
Urge lawmakers to pass bill that
will improve patient care, set safe RN-to-Patient Ratios
- 07.23.07
Yet
Another New Study Links RN Nurse Staffing To An Increase in Patient
Infections and Hospital Costs
Study Bolsters Case for Increasing
RN Staffing in Hospitals
- 05.29.07
New Study Finds ICU Nurse Staffing
and Working Conditions Linked to Increase in Infections and Deaths
Among Elderly Patients
- 03.22.07
New Financial Report Shows Hospitals
Posted Record Profits in 2006
- 01.16.07
- 07.20.06
- 07.11.06
ADVOCATES
FOR PATIENT SAFETY URGE SENATE TO ACT ON NURSE STAFFING LEGISLATION
BOSTON—Chanting
“vote, vote, vote,” supporters of legislation that
would require a state public health agency to establish staffing
standards for nurses in acute care hospitals in Massachusetts
today urged the state Senate to take action on the bill.
- 05.22.06
How
They Voted
Joint
Committees on Public Health and Health Care Finance approve the
compromise bill on Safe RN Staffing
- 05.18.06
Compromise
Bill on RN Staffing in Hospitals is Approved by Public Health
Committee, Clearing Hurdle for a House Vote on May 23rd
MNA
Applauds the Measure as a Balanced and Fair Solution that will
Protect Patients While Addressing Every Concern Raised by the
Hospital Industry
- 04.28.06
House
Leadership Unveils Compromise Bill on RN Staffing – House
Vote Set for May 23
MNA
Strongly Supports the Measure as a Balanced and Fair Solution
that Promises to Address a Growing Crisis in Patient Safety in
the State’s Hospitals
- 04.11.06
Patient Advocate & Parent of
a Child Who Died Due to a Medical Error
Joins Campaign for New Law to Set Safe Limits on Patients Assigned
to RNs
MNA Previews New Radio Ad in Support
of H. 2663
John McCormack, a prominent
patient safety advocate and author of Taylor’s Law, which
made health care providers more accountable, announced today that
he is campaigning for passage of H. 2663...
- 03.14.06
Chair
of Public Health Committee Announces Pending Draft of a Compromise
Bill on RN Staffing
MNA Remains Committed to Working on
a Meaningful Compromise on Legislation that Protects Patients
and Addresses a Growing Nursing Crisis
This morning, at an Executive Session of the Joint
Committee on Public Health, Chairman Peter Koutoujian (D-Waltham)
announced that the committee is putting the final touches on a
redraft of legislation based on two closely watched bills that
attempt to deal with a growing patient safety crisis in Massachusetts
hospitals.
- 01.30.06
New
Information on MHA Web Site: Latest Ploy to Avoid Safe RN-to-Patient
Limits
Will
Do Nothing to Protect Patients from Dangerous Conditions
New
information on the Massachusetts Hospital Association's Web site—which
claims to disclose hospital staffing plans—will do nothing
to protect patients or improve deteriorating patient care conditions
in the state's acute care hospitals.
- 01.17.06
Another
Study Makes Business Case for Increasing RN Staffing in Hospitals
Better
RN Ratios Save Thousands of Lives and Millions of Dollars
A
major study just published in the January/February issue of the
journal Health Affairs shows that an "unequivocal
business case" can be made for increasing the level of registered
nurse staffing in hospitals—a move that
could pay for itself in fewer patient deaths, shorter hospital
stays, and decreased rates of costly medical complications.
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01.03.06
Hospital Profits Near $1 Billion:
Industry Still Refuses to Set Limit on a Nurses' Patient Load
Industry Still Refuses to Set Limit
on a Nurses’ Patient Load
At a time when patient safety
is being endangered by RN understaffing, the state’s hospitals
have posted astounding profits totaling nearly $1 billion for
the past fiscal year.
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