North Adams Community Meeting Tonight As Effort Continues To Restore A Full Service Hospital

5 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, 91 American Legion Drive, North Adams

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Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United

Apr 08, 2014, 11:13 ET

NORTH ADAMS, Mass., April 8, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United:

Residents, workers and community leaders will gather to hear updates on the crisis and to plan next steps in the campaign to restore a full service hospital to meet the health care needs of the 38,000 residents of Northern Berkshire County who are now into their second week with no access to vital health care services after the illegal closing of their century-old hospital.

The meeting provides the media with a great opportunity to meet with residents and learn about upcoming activities in this community-wide and statewide campaign to protect this vulnerable community.

The story of North Adams could be a story repeated in other communities in Massachusetts and the nation in this era of profit driven health care consolidation.

Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United 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 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.

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