News & Events
The Voice of Nurses in Massachusetts
The MNA Division of Public Communications raises public awareness of and support for nursing issues by making nurses and nursing front-page news throughout the state and the nation. Below you will find the latest news regarding all facets of the organization. For a listing of upcoming MNA happenings, visit our Events Calendar.
Current News
- 09.26.2018 2018 Convention Reimbursement Form
- 09.18.2018 YES on Question 1: Hospital executives continue to threaten and deceive voters with latest ad
- 09.10.2018 New Study Finds Hospital Executives Grossly Exaggerating Cost of Question 1
- 08.30.2018 Bedside Nurses in TV Ad Supporting Safe Patient Limits and MA Question 1
- 08.22.2018 RNs, Residents, & Community Activists Wait for what’s next as Dept. of Public Health Notifies HealthAlliance that Pediatric Unit at Leominster Hospital is an Essential Service
- 08.21.2018 Patient Safety Advocates to Hold Press Conference Exposing Multi-Millionaire Hospital Executives and Multi-Billion Dollar Hospital Corporations as the True Source of Opposition to Question 1
- 08.17.2018 VIDEO: Worcester Emergency Nurse Lyn Flagg Supports Question 1, Safe Patient Limits
- 08.15.2018 VIDEO: Emergency Nurse Isabella Kopka on Safe Patient Limits in CA and MA
- 08.09.2018 VIDEO: RN Lina Ledoux on Safe Patient Limits and ED Nursing in California and Massachusetts
- 08.07.2018 MNA Nurses at Providence Hospital in Holyoke to Hold August 9 Protest Against Patient Care Cuts by Wildly Profitable Trinity Health
- 07.30.2018 Proposed Closures of Local Hospital Units and Services by HealthAlliance will be focus of DPH Public Hearing on Aug. 1
- 07.26.2018 Video: California Health Care Workers Support MA Question 1 - Safe Patient Limits
- 07.17.2018 MNA Nurses at Providence Behavioral Health Hospital Vow to Fight Damaging Cuts to Child and Elder Psychiatric Services
- 07.17.2018 The Ballot is Brewing! Join us Aug. 2 at a Boston Brewery Event for Safe Patient Limits
- 07.16.2018 Registered Nurses Unite for Question 1: Safe Patient Limits
- 07.12.2018 NEW Free Domestic Violence CE and BBQ for Members 8/7
- 07.09.2018 MNA Nurses at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield Ratify Strong Contract after First Negotiation with Out-of-State Employer
- 07.09.2018 MNA Nurses at Providence Behavioral Health Hospital in Holyoke Ratify Strong Contract after First Negotiation with Out-of-State Employer
- 07.09.2018 Patient Safety Act Secured on the November Ballot
- 06.28.2018 Berkshire Medical Center Nurses Vote to Ratify New Contract that Marks Major Success for Patients, Nurses and the Public
- 06.27.2018 MNA Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Stand Strong against Blow Dealt by U.S. Supreme Court to Working Families and Communities
- 06.21.2018 MNA Board Votes to Urge U.S. Government to Swiftly Reunite Families Separated at the Border and Condemn the Trauma Inflicted on Thousands of Children
- 06.21.2018 MNA Members: Join RN Donna Kelly-Williams for a Telephone Town Hall on Safe Patient Limits on June 28
- 06.18.2018 Mass SJC Rules Ballot Measure to Set Safe Patient Limits is Valid Decision Clears Path for Patient Safety Act to Be on the Ballot in November
- 06.15.2018 Berkshire Medical Center Nurses Reach Tentative Agreement that Improves Staffing and Patient Care and Averts One-Day Strike
- 06.12.2018 Baystate Franklin Medical Center Nurses Vote to Ratify New Contract that Marks a Major Success for Patients, Nurses, All Caregivers and the Public
- 06.05.2018 Hear why Dotty Nygard, an ED nurse in California, supports Safe Patient Limits for patients and nurse in Massachusetts
- 06.05.2018 Berkshire Medical Center Nurses Schedule 24-hour Strike for Monday, June 18 after Management Refuses to Make Staffing and Patient Care Improvements
- 05.29.2018 UMass Memorial Health Alliance in Leominster Plans to Close Pediatric Unit Depriving Children and Families of Access to Care Close to Home
- 05.23.2018 Baystate Franklin Medical Center Nurses Reach Tentative Agreement that Benefits Patients, Nurses and the Public
- 05.11.2018 Massachusetts Nurses Association Endorses Representative Michael Capuano for Re-Election
- 05.07.2018 ‘State of Patient Care in Massachusetts’ Survey Released for National Nurses Week Finds Nurses Sounding the Alarm Over Deteriorating Conditions for Hospitalized Patients and Need for Safe Patient Limits
- 05.07.2018 During National Nurses Week, Berkshire Medical Center Nurses to Rally, Highlighting 500+ Unsafe Staffing Forms Filed by RNs
- 04.30.2018 Hearing on 4/30: Call Lawmakers to Support Safe Patient Limits
