Nursing strike at a Massachusetts hospital marks its 7th month as negotiations between the union and hospital officials continue to deteriorate with no end in sight.
Liz Drowne, a registered nurse, strikes with her co-workers outside of Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., on March 8.The nursing strike at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, marked its seventh month Friday, as negotiations between the union and hospital officials continued to deteriorate with no end in sight.
The nurses maintain that the nurse-to-patient ratio had been at an unmanageable level, leading to a decrease in the quality of care they were able to provide. The staffing problems started before the pandemic, and union officials said they had been negotiating with the hospital for more than 18 months before voting to strike.
Ritacco described situations where nurses had so much to do in a single shift, they were unable to bathe, turn, wash or walk patients. She said one nurse she knows found herself in a situation where she had to choose between protecting a patient who was going to fall out of a bed or respond to a call from a patient with chest pain — with no backup in sight.
The length of the strike “is a travesty and serves as an indictment of Tenet Healthcare and their unyielding desire for profit,” Marlena Pellegrino, a nurse at Saint Vincent and co-chair of the nurses bargaining unit, said in a statement. "The people on the inside caring for patients, travel nurses, other staff, are doing a great job taking the best possible care," she said. Adding that the strike has taken a toll on the hospital, she said,"We have had to reduce services as a result of the strike. In August, we closed 111 beds."
She also maintained that the union’s staffing demands are impossible to meet."If every hospital across the state went to a 4-to-1 ratio, you wouldn’t have enough nurses," she said."It would exacerbate an already challenging nurse staffing crisis."
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