2014 News Archive
- 12.09.2014 Vote NOW for the MNA's Natalie M.Pereira for Woman of the Year!
- 12.08.2014 Leominster Hospital RNs to Hold Candlelight Vigil to Protect Patient Safety on Dec. 10
- 12.08.2014 RNs at Cape Cod and Falmouth Hospitals to Picket on Dec. 11 over Management’s Efforts to Implement Dangerous Changes in How Nursing Care is Delivered
- 12.05.2014 Region 5 Council Meetings Schedule for 2015
- 12.03.2014 Berkshire Medical Center Nurses To Hold an Informational Picket on Dec., 10 to Protest Unsafe Staffing, Excessive Patient Assignments and Punitive Work Environment
- 12.01.2014 For the Record: The true legislative intent on of An Act Relative to Patient Limits in All Hospital Intensive Care Units
- 11.20.2014 HPC Listening Session Provides Opportunity to Clarify MNA's Position on Effective Acuity Tools Under the ICU Staffing Law
- 11.19.2014 Leominster Hospital RNs to Hold Food Drive to Support Ginny’s Helping Hands Food Pantry
- 11.14.2014 HPC to Hold Second Listening Session: Nurse Staffing in ICUs on Nov. 19 from 9 – 11 a.m. at State House in Boston
- 11.13.2014 MNA Offers CE Program on Ebola PPE and Safe Donning and Doffing Practices
- 11.10.2014 Leominster Hospital RNS will Picket to “Stop the Cuts & Protect Patient Care” on Nov. 12
- 11.10.2014 RN Strikes, Pickets, Leafleting Headline Actions in 16 States Nov. 12 for Improved Ebola and Patient Safety Standards
- 11.07.2014 DPH Sends Notice to All Hospital Administrators to Remind Them That ICU Staffing Law is Indeed Now in Effect
- 11.03.2014 MNA/NNU Nurses to Hand Out Information on Ebola at Polling Places Tomorrow
- 10.31.2014 Leomister RNs' Community Forum a Resounding Success!
- 10.29.2014 Residents, Patients, Community Leaders, and Legislators to Join Oct. 30 Community Forum that is Focused on Protecting Patient Care at Leominster Hospital
- 10.29.2014 MNA/NNU Makes Case for Strong Acuity Tool and Reaffirms Staff Nurses’ Right to Have Final Call on Patient Assignments at ICU Law Listening Session
- 10.28.2014 Health Policy Commission to Hold a Hearing Tomorrow on the New ICU Safe Patient Limits Law
- 10.27.2014 Here is the PPE RNs Need in Caring for an Ebola Patient
- 10.27.2014 Video of Testimony by MNA Nurses at State House Hearing on Ebola Preparedness for Frontline Caregivers
- 10.27.2014 Here is the PPE RNs Need in Caring for an Ebola Patient
- 10.24.2014 Protect Patient Care at Leominster Hospital!
- 10.22.2014 Brigham & Women’s Hospital Nurses Hold Press Conference To Alert the Public About Deteriorating Patient Care For the Most Critically Ill Patients
- 10.22.2014 Committee on Public Health to Hold Hearing on Ebola Preparedness for Frontline Caregivers and First Responders at a Time When Nurses Across Mass. Report a Lack of Education, Training and Proper Protective Equipment to Respond to an Outbreak
- 10.22.2014 Video of Press Conference Remarks Regarding Unsafe and Illegal Care Conditions for ICU Patients at Brigham & Women's Hospital
- 10.21.2014 Degradation of Care Continues to Unfold in Central Mass
- 10.20.2014 Brigham & Women’s Hospital Nurses to Hold Press Conference on Oct. 22 to Alert the Public About Deteriorating Patient Care For the Most Critically Ill Patients
- 10.17.2014 National Nurses United Urges You to Take Action Now! Sign Our Petition to Tell President Obama - Protect Our Nurses
- 10.16.2014 Karen Higgins Offers Powerful, Honest Testimony at State House Oversight Hearing on the Commonwealth's “Readiness” to Respond an Ebola Outbreak
- 10.15.2014 Attention Mass. ICU Nurses: Fill Out Our Survey on Patient Acuity To Help Develop Acuity Tool for the New ICU Staffing Law
- 10.14.2014 North Adams City Council to Consider Resolution Calling for Restoration of a Full Service Hospital on Oct. 14
- 10.14.2014 Press Conference Postponed
- 10.13.2014 Ebola – RNs Call for Highest Standards for Protective Equipment, including Hazmat Suits, Hands-On Training Following Report of First Nurse Infection in Dallas
- 10.07.2014 Ebola: Screening and Managing a Patient While Protecting Yourself
- 10.01.2014 New Law In Effect This Week Guarantees Safer Patient Care for Critically Ill Patients
- 09.30.2014 Picket by MNA Nurses at Cooley Dickinson Averted
- 09.29.2014 Learn More About the New ICU Safe Patient Limits Law
- 09.29.2014 Save the Date for October 29 Hearing on ICU Staffing Law
- 09.29.2014 Public Health Fact Sheet - Asthma & EV-D68
- 09.29.2014 Athol Hospital Nurses Vote to Unionize with Massachusetts Nurses Association/NNU
- 09.26.2014 MNA Files Complaint Against Brigham & Women's Hospital to Stop Mandatory Flu Vaccination Policy
- 09.24.2014 MNA Analysis of Consultant’s on the Need for Inpatient Services in North Adams
- 09.22.2014 Cooley Dickinson Hospital Nurses Plan Informational Picket
- 09.18.2014 MNA Statement Regarding the Long-Awaited Consultant's Report on Health Services for Northern Berkshire County
- 09.17.2014 Leominster Hospital CEO Refuses to Meet With RNs
- 09.08.2014 Leominster Hospital RNs to Deliver Petition to CEO on Sep. 8 (11:45 a.m.) in Opposition to Proposed Staffing Cuts, Service Consolidation and Increases to Nurses’ Patient Assignments that they Believe Will Jeopardize the Safety of Patients
- 09.05.2014 Join the MNA in NY for the People's Climate March
- 09.04.2014 RNRN Ebola Alert--Urgent need for West African healthcare workers and survey for US RNs
- 09.02.2014 The MNF is having its Annual Silent Auction at the DCU Center on October 2, 2014