, /PRNewswire/ -- Registered nurses at Baystate Noble Hospital and clinicians at Baystate Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice, represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, will deliver a petition signed by more than 220 community members on to Baystate Health Board of Trustees Member Robert Bacon at his business in . "We, as community members, stand with Baystate Noble Hospital nurses and Baystate VNA clinicians seeking to ensure safe patient care through improved working conditions and investment in their healthcare workforce," "Baystate is a non-profit healthcare organization with an obligation to provide community members with access to local, quality care." 2 p.
m. 68 Union Street, (the corporate HQ of Elm Electric, the company led by ) "Noble nurses and Baystate VNA clinicians are struggling with burnout and moral injury due to unsafe staffing that is jeopardizing patient safety. A combination of poor working conditions and non-competitive wages has prompted many nurses to look for work elsewhere and has impeded recruitment efforts.
" In May, signed by nearly 100% of hospital nurses. Despite multiple negotiation sessions since the petition delivery, management has failed to propose a contract that addresses the nurses' concerns. Baystate Health made in profits during the fiscal year-to-date period ending , according to the latest reporting by the .
Noble Hospital individually was profitable as well during that period. Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Asso.
