Becker's Healthcare December 30, 2024
In 2024, nurses filed hundreds of safety concerns about two Massachusetts hospitals operated by Dallas-based Tenet Health. Most recently, a union representing these nurses alleged that understaffing caused two preventable patient deaths.
In late September, a patient’s dialysis treatment “was cut 30 minutes short so that the only dialysis nurse on-call could emergently dialyze a second unstable patient,” according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association. The patient who received limited treatment died, and the other patient went into cardiac arrest and died before receiving treatment, the union said.
The Massachusetts Nurses Association has raised numerous concerns about Worcester-based St. Vincent Hospital and Framingham Union Hospital for years. It said St. Vincent has “an ongoing and dire crisis,” according to...
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