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Striking Massachusetts nurses press their staffing concerns outside Tenet’s North Texas HQ Nurses and supporters rallied together to deliver a 16-foot-long petition signed by more than 700 nurses. Marlena Pellegrino, a 44-year nurse at St. Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts, speaks to fellow protesters outside Tenet Healthcare’s Farmers Branch headquarters after delivering a petition signed by 700 striking nurses on July 7, 2021.(Shelby Tauber / Special Contributor) 6:28 PM on Jul 7, 2021 CDT The longest active nursing strike in over a decade arrived in North Texas Wednesday outside the headquarters of hospital operator Tenet Healthcare. At Tenet-owned St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., 800 nurses walked off the job March 8 to demand improvements in staffing. Represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, the striking nurses say the problem has only gotten worse during the COVID-19 pandemic. ....
Letter: St. Vincent Hospital nurses hope to win better care for the community Telegram & Gazette Hospitals love a martyr. A nurse who will give and give without limits. A nurse who will take that extra patient, work that extra shift, skip a lunch break. While patients are living longer, come in sicker, hospital stays are shorter and nurses are stretched thinner. Long before COVID-19, nurses had enough. 33% of nurses leave the profession in the first two years. 50% of nurses consider leaving the bedside permanently. I know why people leave. We are never enough. We are blamed for how high infection or fall rates are, how slow we are to answer call lights. They show us the graphs and charts, the negative reviews. We go home with the guilt that we have not done enough. The solution is simple, we need more help. Since 2019, St Vincent nurses have negotiated for ratios. We ask this of a company who can spend $50,000,000 to say no. Carolyn Jackson s fear is nurses will march acro ....