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Massachusetts hospital makes new offer to striking nurses

Jun. 28, 2021 09:34 AM EDT
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Management at a Massachusetts hospital where nurses have been on strike for nearly four months made a new offer over the weekend in an...

In this photo created with an in-camera multiple exposure, registered nurse Debbie Wooters, part of a group of nurses who had been treating coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit, holds a group picture taken with her fellow nurses in the empty COVID-19 ICU at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Many patients were frightened when told they would be put on a ventilator. Wooters remembers a patient who "looked at me and said, through his gasping breath, 'I don't want to die.'" (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
AP PHOTOS: For Calif. COVID nurses, past and present collide

By Peter Prengaman Jun. 21, 2021 10:59 AM EDT

FILE - This photo from Tuesday Dec. 1, 2020, shows a nurse during a protest strike over safe staffing issues at Montefiore Hospital in New Rochelle, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation, Friday June 18, 2021,  requiring general hospitals in the state to seek input from nurses and other staff in creating staffing plans that are to include specific guidelines on how many patients each nurse is assigned. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
New York law gives nurses a voice in hospital staffing plans

Jun. 19, 2021 02:36 PM EDT

National Guard asked to help staff Oregon State Hospital

May. 28, 2021 01:34 PM EDT
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Significant staffing shortages at the Oregon State Hospital prompted health officials to call for the National Guard’s assistance at the...

A nurse waits in an observation room to watch for adverse effects in people who have just received the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at the newly-opened mass vaccination center in Tokyo Monay, May 24, 2021.  Japan opened mass-vaccination sites in two of the country’s biggest metropolitan areas, Tokyo and Osaka, with the goal of administering the shots to up to 15,000 elderly people a day. (Carl Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP)
Japan opens mass vaccine centers 2 months before Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi May. 23, 2021 11:10 PM EDT

Doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine are seen being prepared on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Decatur, Ga. Hundreds of children, ages 12 to 15, received the Pfizer vaccine at the DeKalb Pediatric Center, just days after it was approved for use within their age group. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
School nurses, health service corps part of $7.4B virus plan

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar And Zeke Miller May. 13, 2021 10:30 AM EDT

Hospital to hire permanent replacements for striking nurses

May. 13, 2021 08:58 AM EDT
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts hospital where nurses have been on strike for more than two months has started the process of hiring permanent...

Pharmacists Stella Kim, left, and Mei Tsai check the temperature of a cooler containing the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine before heading out to inoculate two sisters, who have muscular dystrophy, at their home,  Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Torrance, Calif. Torrance Memorial Medical Center started inoculating people at home in March, identifying people through a city hotline, county health department, senior centers and doctor's offices, said Tsai, who coordinates the program. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Nurses, nonprofits, others take vaccine to homebound people

By Janie Har May. 13, 2021 01:29 AM EDT

Jacob Conary, 15, prepares himself for his first shot of the COVID-19 vaccination, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Auburn, Maine. Vaccination clinics in Maine recently opened up to 12 to 15-year-olds. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Maine starts COVID-19 shot rollout to kids; nurses honored

May. 12, 2021 02:30 AM EDT

FILE - This July 23, 2018 file photo shows packets of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, in Greenfield, Mass. The U.S. government is easing requirements that made it difficult for doctors to treat opioid addiction using the medication. New guidelines announced Tuesday, April 27, 2021, mean doctors will no longer need eight hours of training to prescribe buprenorphine. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
US lifts barriers to prescribing addiction treatment drug

By Carla K. Johnson Apr. 27, 2021 09:34 AM EDT

Striking nurses, management to resume negotiations

Apr. 26, 2021 09:23 AM EDT
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Nurses and management at a Massachusetts hospital are scheduled to head back to the negotiating table on Monday in an effort to end a...

FILE - In this Friday, May 8, 2020 file photo, a respiratory therapist pulls on a second mask over her N95 mask before adding a face shield as she gets ready to go into a patient's room in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Seattle.  Medical providers may soon return to using one medical N95 mask per patient, a practice that was suspended during the pandemic due to deadly supply shortages. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
FDA: N95 masks, now plentiful, should no longer be reused

By Martha Mendoza And Juliet Linderman Apr. 23, 2021 10:31 AM EDT

Hawaii to allow some nurses to perform abortions

By Audrey Mcavoy Apr. 12, 2021 08:44 PM EDT
HONOLULU (AP) — Gov. David Ige on Monday signed legislation that would make Hawaii the latest state to allow some nurses to perform abortions. ...

This photo provided by Daymon Gardner shows William Quinn. A New Orleans entrepreneur is celebrating the work of frontline health care workers with an online project called “Dear Nurses.” Robert Fogarty is the founder of Dear World, a special event business and also a nonprofit storytelling site. The Dear Nurses project features his signature Dear World style: individual portraits of 39 health care workers with special messages written on their bare faces, forearms necks or chests. (DaymonmGardner/DearWorld.org via AP)
New Orleans health care workers' heralded in 'Dear Nurses'

By Kevin Mcgill Mar. 20, 2021 10:32 AM EDT

FILE - This artist rendering provided by Amazon shows the next phase of the company's headquarters redevelopment to be built in Arlington, Va. The plans released Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, features a 350-foot helix-shaped office tower that can be climbed from the outside like a mountain hike. Amazon is making its first foray into providing health care services, announcing Wednesday, March 17, 2021, that it will be offering its Amazon Care telemedicine program to employers nationwide. (NBBJ/Amazon via AP, File)
Amazon jumps into health care with telemedicine initiative

By Matthew Barakat Mar. 17, 2021 09:04 AM EDT

Registered nurse Sandra Younan exits an isolation room after caring for a patient at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles on Thursday, March 11, 2021. Younan spent the last year juggling long hours as she watched many patients struggle with the coronavirus and some die. Then there were the patients who claimed the virus was fake or coughed in her face, ignoring mask rules. One man stormed out of the hospital after a positive COVID-19 test, refusing to believe it was accurate. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Nurses fight conspiracy theories along with coronavirus

By Ali Swenson And David Klepper Mar. 13, 2021 02:51 PM EST

Striking nurses walk the picket line outside Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., as the sun rises on the first day of a strike Monday, March 8, 2021. Hundreds of nurses at the central Massachusetts hospital walked off the job on Monday morning after failing to reach an agreement with management over staffing levels.  (Rick Cinclair/Worcester Telegram & Gazette via AP)
Nurses at Massachusetts hospital walk off the job

Mar. 08, 2021 08:39 AM EST

Nurses and supporters line the street outside of Saint Vincent Hospital Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Worcester, Mass., ahead of a rally on the eve of a possible strike. (Christine Peterson/Worcester Telegram & Gazette via AP)
800 nurses at a Massachusetts hospital preparing to strike

Mar. 07, 2021 08:53 PM EST

Nurses at Massachusetts hospital set strike date

Feb. 24, 2021 12:38 PM EST
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Nurses at a Massachusetts hospital have given notice that they plan to strike early next month unless management agrees to boost...

Nurses, including Mary Turner, left, picket Friday, Feb. 12, 2021 in Faribault, Minn.,as part of a healthcare worker protest of a shortage on protective masks. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Hospitals still ration medical N95 masks as stockpiles swell

By Jason Dearen, Juliet Linderman And Martha Mendoza Feb. 16, 2021 11:34 AM EST

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