Why are the nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester on strike?
Nurses are mainly advocating for a 1-to-4 ratio of nurses to patients instead of the current staffing ratio of mostly 1-to-5 assignments.
Tenet proposed a 1-to-4 ratio of nurses to COVID patients on the medical/surgical floor and a 1-to-2 ratio in the progressive care unit, as well as a 1-to-4 ratio of nurses to patients in two nursing units currently classified as cardiac telemetry, and another critical care float nurse to address additional patient loads, according to a release from the hospital.
During the last negotiation session, Tenet s negotiating party stated they would not make any changes in their position.
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Young people have had the most COVID cases in Massachusetts in the last 2 weeks; doctors say spread fueled by gatherings outside of school
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
In the last two weeks, the majority of COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts have been diagnosed in people ages 0-19, a trend that health officials say is not related to schooling and is more likely to be caused by the activities of teenagers.
Mask usage is an important factor for this metric and teenagers may not always wear a mask, said Richard Ellison, an epidemiologist at UMass Memorial Medical Center.
“This may be more a question of what’s actually happening in terms of social distancing and other kinds of activities that could expose someone [to the virus],” Ellison.