![]() ![]() ![]() “Because they have shortchanged all our facilities with staffing, their plan to shuffle staff will only weaken care for everyone,” Jacqui Fitts, a nurse and co-chair of the nurses’ MNA local bargaining unit at Morton Hospital in Taunton said in a press release.Īs of last week, there are three patients at NVMC who’ve tested positive for coronavirus. She added that the ICU nurses were moved to the Methuen campus of Holy Family Hospital to help COVID-19 patients. The MNA said in a press release on April 2 that when Steward ordered the closing of the ICU at NVMC, it also sent the registered nurses of that unit home without pay.Īudra Sprague, a registered nurse and co-chair of the nurses’ local bargaining unit with the MNA, said that the ICU is still closed as of Wednesday and the three patients that were in the six-bed unit were transferred out to other hospitals. However, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association, this is leaving patients at the Ayer hospital without nurses for proper patient treatment and impacting pay. The decision is part of the company’s plan implemented on March 31 to redistribute nursing staff to other hospitals dealing with an influx of COVID-19 patients. The Dallas-based for-profit health care corporation confirmed that it temporarily suspended admissions of intensive care patients at the Ayer hospital last week. AYER – The Nashoba Valley Medical Center is experiencing staff shakeups as its owner, Steward Health Care, is trying to spread nurses around to address coronavirus cases. ![]()
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