Telegram & Gazette Staff
WORCESTER Nearly three months after 800 nurses at St. Vincent Hospital walked off the job over staffing concerns, a delegation of federal and state lawmakers sent the hospital’s owner, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Executive Chairman and CEO Ronald Rittenmeyer, a sharply worded letter regarding the company’s decision to permanently replace striking nurses.
Led by U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, and U.S. Reps. James McGovern and Lori Trahan, the letter was signed by 28 other local officials and state leaders, including State Sen. President Emerita Harriette Chandler, Worcester Mayor Joseph M. Petty and the City Council.
Massachusetts federal delegation calls on Tenet Healthcare to expedite COBRA benefits to striking nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester
Updated 7:38 AM;
Nearly ever member of Massachusetts’ federal congressional delegation signed a letter on Wednesday urging Tenet Healthcare to expedite the COBRA benefits that are entitled to nearly 800 striking nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester.
It represented the second letter in as many days from members of Congress to Tenet regarding the nurses strike. Also on Wednesday, a letter signed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Ed Markey, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern and U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan urged Tenet Healthcare Executive Chairman and CEO Ronald Rittenmeyer to work with the nurses to come to an agreement.
Tenet Healthcare declines offer from Saint Vincent Hospital’s nurses to continue negotiations on Friday, strike likely to enter 10th week
Updated May 07, 2021;
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Any momentum in the talks between Tenet Healthcare and the nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital appeared to evaporate by the end of the week. It caps a period that saw the two sides meet three times in a span of 10 days.
The Massachusetts Nurses Association on Friday said that Tenet, the Dallas-based parent company of Saint Vincent Hospital, declined the nurse’s offer to return to the negotiating table on Friday.
A mediator informed the nurses on Thursday that Tenet would not meet on Friday, and will not meet until the nurses agree to compromise on their call for safer staffing.
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