We Have Just Learned State Officials Will Be In North Adams Today to Expedite the Re-Opening of the ED at North Adams Regional Hospital

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Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United

Apr 01, 2014, 12:12 ET

NORTH ADAMS, Mass., April 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United:

We have just learned that high ranking officials from the Governor's office, the Attorney General and other policymakers will be in North Adams today to expedite the opening of the emergency department at North Adams Regional Hospital.

The nurses of NARH are cautiously optimistic and hopeful that this effort could result in the restoration of emergency care for Northern Berkshire County as soon as possible, while also resulting in a long term solution that would guarantee the full service hospital this community has benefitted from for more than a century.

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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