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“Scrubs Off Strike On!” MGB Nurses Announce Strike Date
Last Friday, October 2nd, Brigham and Women’s Hospital nurses officially set a date for their recently authorized open-ended strike. The strike is scheduled to begin on October 14th and will continue until both Mass General Brigham, and the nurses can agree on a contract. The vote to authorize the strike resulted in 93% support for the motion, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association. By scheduling the strike to begin on the 14th, the nurses’ union satisfied their legal obligation to provide the hospital with at least 10-days’ notice before going on strike. Kelly Morgan, the chair of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Massachusetts Nurses Association Bargaining Committee, released a statement explaining the reason for the strike.
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Darkness Adds Another Layer Of Mystery To This Abandoned Massachusetts Hospital
Medfield State Hospital can feel almost ordinary in bright daylight, but the atmosphere shifts as the sun drops behind its empty brick buildings. Boarded windows, long walkways, and quiet grounds give the former Massachusetts hospital an unmistakable sense of mystery without needing ghost stories to make it interesting. The real...
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Adapt and thrive: As assisted living celebrates milestone, here’s how providers can navigate ‘rapid evolution’
BOSTON — Much has changed in the two and a half decades since the formation of the National Center for Assisted Living, LaShuan Bethea and Clif Porter said Sunday at the opening session of NCAL Day, celebrating 25 years of NCAL and the 20th annual NCAL Day. Porter, president...
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CVS Pharmacy opens its first Boston-area pharmacy-focused location
The small, pharmacy-only store in Roxbury aims to meet patients where they are without the fuss of retail. A new CVS opened in Roxbury on Wednesday, bringing a chain pharmacy back to Nubian Square after nearby Walgreens closures left some residents facing long walks to fill prescriptions. The smaller-format store...
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Network Outage Disrupts Computer Systems at More Than 12 Mass General Brigham Hospitals
The outage disrupted computer systems at more than 12 Mass General Brigham hospitals Thursday, prompting staff to use pen-and-paper charting while care teams worked to keep patients moving through the system. MGB said patient care continued except for some elective outpatient procedures; a patient's transfer to a recovery center was delayed.
Dianna Carney
Flu Clinics Offer Weymouth Residents a Chance to Stay Protected
The Weymouth Health Department of Weymouth, Massachusetts, is urging residents to get vaccinated against the flu, with clinics scheduled at Weymouth Town Hall, Tufts Library, and Whipple Senior Center. The department’s announcement says the vaccine is available to people ages 5 and older.
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Brigham nurses union postponing planned strike this week
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Rockland Recovery Group to Open Its First South Shore Inpatient Campus
Rockland Recovery Group, a Massachusetts-based addiction treatment organization founded in 2017, is preparing to open Longview Behavioral Health – its first inpatient campus – on a historic 23-acre property in Kingston, Massachusetts (the former Sacred Heart School / Providence House). The campus brings inpatient substance use and mental health treatment together in one South Shore […]
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Network outage hits Mass General Brigham hospitals; patient care continues
A network outage across the Mass General Brigham system on Thursday has pushed the health care network's hospitals and other care teams off of computers temporarily. Patient care was continuing during the outage, an MGB representative told NBC10 Boston. The incident isn't believed to be a cyberattack. Staff at Massachusetts...
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No deal after Brigham nurses, hospital leadership meet; open-ended strike looms
After lengthy contract talks Thursday, there's still no deal between Brigham and Women's Hospital nurses and management less than a week before a planned strike. The Massachusetts Nurses Association, the union representing 4,000 nurses, met with hospital management Thursday to bargain with less than a week to go before an open-ended strike that 93% of the nurses authorized in September. It's currently set to begin on Oct. 14 if negotiations are unsuccessful.