DPH Postpones Public Hearing Today On the Proposed Closure of Pediatric Unit at Steward Morton Hospital in Taunton

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Events in Greater Boston Surrounding Manhunt for Suspect in Marathon Bombing Drive Decision New Date for Hearing Yet to Be Determined.

TAUNTON, Mass., April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Due to events surrounding the manhunt for a suspect in the Marathon bombing, the Department of Public Health has announced that it will postpone the public hearing, scheduled for 2 p.m. today at the Taunton Public Library concerning a controversial plan by Cerberus-Steward Health Care to close its Level II 13-bed Pediatric Unit.  A new date for the hearing has not been set at this time. We will keep the media posted when the hearing is rescheduled. 

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Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest professional health care organization and the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  Its 23,000 members advance the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Legislature and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.  The MNA is also a founding member of National Nurses United, the largest national nurses union in the United States with more than 170,000 members from coast to coast.

SOURCE Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United

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