With number of beds halved since 1980, state should alter its closings policy By Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar, 3/3/2002 Massachusetts has lost almost half of its hospitals and patient… Read more »
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Too many local hospitals on life support
State’s Health Care Professionals Decry Legislature’s Deep Cuts in Human Services
State’s Health Care Professionals Decry Legislature’s Deep Cuts in Human Services Urge Legislature to Pass Supplemental Funding to Protect Most Vulnerable Citizens Warn Cuts Will Result in Increased Homelessness, Suicides,… Read more »
TV 4’s I Team Reports on Readiness (or lack thereof) of Mass. ERs to Respond to Bioterrorist Attacks—MNA Stands Ready to Help System Prepare
Below is the text of a report that aired last night on WBZ-TV Channel 4 concerning the readiness of Massachusetts emergency rooms to handle a bioterrorist attack. MNA member and… Read more »
Massachusetts Nurses Association Votes To Disaffiliate from National Organization, Sets Course for More Progressive, Pro-Staff Nurse Agenda
More than 82 % of the Nurses Vote for Split at Special Meeting Held in Worcester WORCESTER, Mass.—At a historic and closely watched meeting held at Mechanics Hall in Worcester… Read more »
Maine Nurses Association Chides ANA for Breaking Promise To Fix UAN Bylaw to Prevent Management Domination
The Maine State Nurses Association has sent a strongly-worded letter to the leadership of the American Nurses Association, chiding them for failing to honor a promise made to the MSNA… Read more »
ANA Faces Another Form of Disaffiliation Vote—This Time From Its Own Employees
ANA Employees To Take Strike Vote Today! The American Nurses Association, which purports to be an effective national union for nurses through its union arm – The United American Nurses… Read more »
MNA Files Lawsuit Against Margaret Barry
Members of Committee to Preserve ANA and the American Nurses Association For Defamation and Conspiracy in Waging Malicious Campaign To Stop Disaffiliation CANTON, Mass.—In response to a series of baseless… Read more »
Unsafe Staffing Form Examples 2022
Every day across Massachusetts, nurses take time to fill out unsafe staffing forms out of concern for the safety of their patients and the quality of their nursing practice. In… Read more »
