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PLAINVILLE There was no disguising the love in Plainville on a mild spring evening. It was heralded by blaring sirens, flashing lights, honking horns, music and shouts, adorned with handmade signs, balloons, streamers, bubbles, pink and blue powder smoke, and a crowd of white lawn signs with red hearts on them, and expressed with words like, You ve got this, Girl! We love you! and Malia Strong X2! One after another, fire engines, ambulances, police cruisers and family cars proceeded past the Cowell Street home of nearly 13-year-old Malia Jusczyk and her family on May 7: A parade of love for a girl who has won countless hearts in her community. ....
St. Vincent Hospital nurses in Worcester, Mass. in second week of strike for safe staffing ratios Nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, have entered their second week of an ongoing strike. They are demanding that Tenet Healthcare, which owns St. Vincent Hospital, agree to establish strict ratios for safer patient and workplace conditions. The roughly 700 nurses on the picket line, members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, have been joined by other health care workers, including personal care assistants (PCA), pulmonary technicians and housekeepers, who face similarly dangerous conditions at the hospital. On February 10 the nurses gave 89 percent approval to authorize a strike. Negotiations resumed the next day but quickly stalled again, as hospital management refused to address their central concern: assignment limits of four patients to every nurse on medical-surgical floors. ....