![]() ![]() The nurses have documented a number of deficiencies in patient care and safety including:Ī chronic lack of needed staff, from nurses to aides to respiratory therapists to secretaries to housekeeping staff that is causing inadequate care and monitoring of patients Īt least three “never events” have occurred in recent months, these events are serious errors that must be reported to DPH The elimination of the IV Team is just the latest assault on the quality and safety of patient care that has further alarmed the nurses and precipitated a decision to alert the public about rapidly deteriorating patient care conditions impacting every aspect of care at St. The petition, which was signed by more than 80 percent of the hospital’s nurses, including signatures from more than 30 physicians, along with respiratory therapists, pharmacists and other hospital staff who rely on the IV Team states: “These professionals provide a valuable service to the hospital, our physicians and our patients and their elimination will only serve to degrade patient satisfaction, increase the risk of serious harm and unnecessary suffering for our patients, expose our staff to preventable needlestick injuries, and yes, result in the loss of revenue due to the complications resulting from this decision.” The event will also be livestreamed on the Massachusetts Nurses Association Facebook page. entrance to the hospital on October 27 at 12 noon to meet with members of the media who wish to learn more about this issue, and several other deficiencies impacting the care of patients. The delegation will gather outside the Summer St. Vincent Hospital nurses characterize as a “callous and dangerous” decision to eliminate the hospital’s specially trained and highly skilled IV (Intravenous) Therapy Team, a delegation of nurses will deliver a petition to the hospital’s CEO Carolyn Jackson urging Jackson and highly profitable Tenet Healthcare to maintain this vital service for patients and caregivers. WORCESTER, MA - In response to what the St. We cannot and will not remain silent about this or any decision by Tenet that threatens the safety of our patients and our community” “Once again our CEO and her administration has made an utterly senseless and profit-driven decision that only serves to cause our patients physical and emotional harm, denying them the highest standard of care and dignity they deserve. Nurses go public to expose what the nurses believe is an unrelenting and illegal attack on nurses and their patients by the hospital administration that has degraded care throughout the facility since the end of the nurses’ historic strike ![]() ![]() 27th (12 noon) in Opposition to Tenet Plan to Eliminate the Hospital’s IV Therapy Team, a Callous Decision That Will Compromise Care and Could Harm Vulnerable Patients Vincent Hospital Nurses to Hold Press Conference to Detail Serious Deficiencies in Patient Care & Deliver Petition to CEO on Oct. ( N) What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! ( O) 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.Facebook Twitter Printer Additional News & Events St. ( M) 13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. ( K) Wisdom Is Meaninglessġ2 I, the Teacher, ( L) was king over Israel in Jerusalem. What has been done will be done again ( I)ġ0 Is there anything of which one can say,ġ1 No one remembers the former generations, ( J)īy those who follow them. 3 What do people gain from all their labors ![]()
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