BOSTON, Aug. 27,
2024 /PRNewswire/ --
WEDNESDAY, August 28 at
10:30 a.m. – Rally to Save Carney
Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center on the Front Steps of
the State House
State Senators Nick Collins and
Jamie Eldridge will host this event,
where community members, caregivers, first responders, health and
social justice advocates, along with other concerned state and
local public officials will gather outside the State House to call
on our state's leaders to exhaust every effort to prevent the loss
of these vital community assets. The event follows last
week's DPH findings which deemed Carney Hospital and Nashoba
Valley Medical Center as essential services to protect the public
health of the nearly 300,000 residents served by these
facilities.
WEDNESDAY, September 4 at
11 a.m. (EST) -- Bankruptcy Court in
Houston to hold a hearing to
Approve Sale of 5 Hospitals (originally scheduled for Aug. 27th)
The hearing scheduled before Judge Christopher Lopez originally is to review and
approve asset purchase agreements negotiated between Steward
Healthcare, their lender and the Commonwealth, which include the
purchase of Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton by Boston Medical Center, Holy Family
Hospitals in Haverhill and
Methuen by Lawrence General
Hospital, Morton Hospital in Taunton and Saint Anne's Hospital in
Fall River by Lifespan (located in
Providence RI). The state also
announced last week that it was taking St. Elizabeth's Medical
Center by eminent domain, with a plan to transition the facility to
Boston Medical Center.
Link to listen to
hearing: https://www.gotomeet.me/JudgeLopez; Phone is
832-917-1510 ; 590153.
Editors Note: For reporters looking to speak with
nurses at the Steward-owned facilities represented by MNA (which
includes all the hospitals except for St. Anne's) contact
David Schildmeier at
dschildmeier@mnarn.org.
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Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its
25,000 members advance the nursing profession by fostering high
standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general
welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and
realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Legislature and
regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the
public.
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