Milford Regional Medical Center

GHX Honors Top-Performing Healthcare Providers with 2023 Supply Chains of Distinction Award

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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LOUISVILLE, Colo., March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) today announced the inaugural class of its Supply Chains of Distinction Award for 2023, which recognizes top performing hospitals and health systems in North America.

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  • LOUISVILLE, Colo., March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) today announced the inaugural class of its Supply Chains of Distinction Award for 2023, which recognizes top performing hospitals and health systems in North America.
  • Industry-leading supply chains have evolved to become more automated, data-driven and resilient, giving rise to a set of best practice "perfect order" metrics that measure an organization's supply chain performance.
  • The Supply Chains of Distinction Award honors GHX Exchange-connected provider organizations that excelled in driving best-in-class supply chain operations.
  • The following organizations represent the class of 2023 Supply Chains of Distinction Award recipients.

Milford Regional Medical Center Nurses Vote to Ratify First MNA Contract, Featuring Significant Investments in Nurses, and Strong Protections to Help Improve Patient Care Conditions

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Thursday, November 17, 2022
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MILFORD, Mass., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The more than 500 registered nurses of Milford Regional Medical Center, represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, voted overwhelmingly on November 16 to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement after unionizing in 2021 and working together to secure improvements to patient care, working conditions, wages, and benefits.

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  • "Milford Regional Medical Center nurses are amazing caregivers and have shown that working together gives us strength to overcome a global pandemic or any challenge thrown our way.
  • This contract values our dedication to patient care and will help us provide the conditions to recruit and retain the nurses we need."
  • "The result is a contract that Milford nurses were extremely proud to ratify and that will ultimately benefit everyone connected to our hospital."
  • The contract guarantees that charge nurses will be without a patient assignment or have a reduced patient assignment on in-patient units.

Registered Nurses of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Merrimack Valley Vote Overwhelmingly to Join Massachusetts Nurses Association and Unite to Improve Conditions for Patients and Caregivers

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Monday, July 11, 2022
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METHUEN, Mass., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The approximately 28 registered nurses of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – Merrimack Valley have voted overwhelmingly to form a union and join the Massachusetts Nurses Association, empowering them to speak up together and secure lasting improvements that will benefit patients, DFCI – Merrimack Valley nurses and the community. 

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  • The DFCI Merrimack Valley nurses will be represented by the MNA following an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
  • DFCI Merrimack Valley is part of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute headquartered in Boston, where the MNA represents approximately 580 registered nurses.
  • Vote counting on July 8 by NLRB officials was observed via Zoom by DFCI Merrimack Valley nurses and representatives of DFCI.
  • Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Milford Regional Medical Center Nurses to Hold Anniversary Rally and Press Conference on February 22 as They Seek Solutions to Struggles Facing Patients and Caregivers

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Thursday, February 17, 2022
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Nurses will be urging the hospital to continue in the right direction and help solve major challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

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  • Nurses will be urging the hospital to continue in the right direction and help solve major challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
  • The National Labor Relations Board counted the votes of MRMC nurses on February 22, 2021, with nurses voting overwhelmingly to join the MNA .
  • Soon after, Milford nurses elected their colleagues to represent them on the MNA Committee and they began the process of negotiating a first union contract.
  • Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Berkshire VNA Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Vote Overwhelmingly to Join Massachusetts Nurses Association and Unite to Improve Conditions for Patients, Clinicians, and the Community

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Thursday, December 23, 2021
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Berkshire VNA is owned by Berkshire Health Systems, which also owns Berkshire Medical Center where the MNA represents approximately 900 registered nurses.

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  • Berkshire VNA is owned by Berkshire Health Systems, which also owns Berkshire Medical Center where the MNA represents approximately 900 registered nurses.
  • Vote counting on December 22 by NLRB officials was observed via Zoom by BVNA nurses and healthcare professionals and representatives of the agency.
  • The successful election by BVNA nurses and healthcare professionals builds on other recent organizing victories by MNA nurses and health professionals, including at Milford Regional Medical Center and the VNA of Boston.
  • Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

St. Vincent Nurses Call on Tenet to Cease Its Failed Attacks on Nurses & Its Callous Endangerment of Central Mass Patients

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Monday, October 11, 2021
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Pellegrino added, "Our nurses want nothing more than to be back at the bedside to provide our patients with the dignity and expert care they expect and deserve from this, their community hospital.  Unfortunately, Tenet has refused an agreement that would allow that to happen, choosing instead to spend millions to keep us out, to pursue illegal practices to punish us for our advocacy -- all to avoid accountability for providing safe patient care."

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  • We have also received reports of those few strikers who crossed over in recent weeks now leaving for other facilities."
  • As fellow Tenet nurses, we have seen how Tenet leadership put profits over patients at our own hospital and we see they are making the same choice at St. Vincent.
  • "We have had St, Vincent nurses coming in droves to help us out with our nursing shortage at HealthAlliance.
  • Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

St. Vincent Nurses Strike Regrettably Reaches Seven-Months on Oct. 8th As Tenet Healthcare Continues to Deny Agreement to Ensure Safer Patient Care for a Community Hard Hit by Delta Variant

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Thursday, October 7, 2021
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In the last two weeks, the nurses have been buoyed by a  growing chorus of voices coming from all sectors of the community, including two powerful letters from the unions -- UFCW 1445 and Teamsters Local 170 --  representing most of the caregivers still working inside St. Vincent Hospital who place the blame for poor conditions inside the hospital, and the crisis outside the hospital on Tenet, and fully support the nurses call for a return to the positions they held prior to the strike.  

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  • The demand put upon them by the hospitals corporate owners is not only unjust, it is detrimental to the safe restoration of services for our community.
  • Their actions are now putting the community of Worcester at dire risk with the closing of beds and failing to reinstate striking nurses."
  • "We have had St, Vincent nurses coming in droves to help us out with our nursing shortage at HealthAlliance.
  • Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Nurses from Central Mass. Applaud St. Vincent Nurses for Helping Confront Delta Surge, Decry Tenet Healthcare's Refusal to End Strike & Endanger Community by Closing Beds and Services

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Friday, October 1, 2021
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The skill, expertise and helping hands of these nurses are much appreciated by their colleagues throughout the region.

Key Points: 
  • The skill, expertise and helping hands of these nurses are much appreciated by their colleagues throughout the region.
  • She also strongly supports the nurses' decision to continue the strike in the face of Tenet's abusive practices.
  • Tenet needs to bring back these 700 nurses to their original positions and end this, it's that simple."
  • Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.