John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, December 14, 2009 It didn’t take the newly formed National Nurses Union long to announce itself. On Tuesday, representatives from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses… Read more »
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Staffing Ratios the Mantra for Newly Formed NNU
Union democracy: not a passive activity
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition
URGENT! Tell Senator Reid: “Support Amendment No. 2837”
The US Senate healthcare reform process is clearly off the rails, with proposals being thrown about willy-nilly. Meanwhile, an elegant, efficient, and politically expedient amendment awaits its vote: The Medicare-for-all,… Read more »
MNA leaders address issue of safe patient handling during D.C. visit
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition
SINGLE PAYER BREAKING NEWS
Dear Friend, Thank you for signing the petition I posted last summer asking Congress to pass a single-payer national health care program. I would like to let you know that… Read more »
Wilmington school RN honored by MSNO
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition On Oct. 31, Sue Rowe—a longtime MNA member, Wilmington school nurse and former bargaining unit chairperson—was honored, in abstentia, by the Massachusetts School… Read more »
Recognizing nursing excellence: MNA 2009 award winners
From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition
Globe Story — State’s ER policy passes checkup: Hospitals accept ambulance rule; Wait times don’t spike for patients
Hospitals accept ambulance rule; Wait times don’t spike for patients By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff | December 14, 2009 A new state policy requiring crowded hospital emergency rooms to accept… Read more »
Wash Post Dec 11 09 CMS (Medicare) Report: Medicare cuts would threaten profitability of one in five hospitals, warning that many institutions might drop Medicare
By Lori Montgomery Friday, December 11, 2009 2:42 PM A Senate plan to cut Medicare to pay for an overhaul of the health system would threaten the profitability of roughly… Read more »
CNN Dec 11 2009 Not good! Senate health care bill to allow benefit caps, Democratic aides say
Washington (CNN) — The health care bill being negotiated in the Senate would allow caps on annual insurance benefits, reversing a previous version of the plan that would have prevented… Read more »
