Registered nurses at Quincy Medical Center, which is owned by Cerberus-backed Steward Health Care System, will conduct a one-day strike tomorrow starting at 6 a.m. to protest what they allege to be dangerous staffing conditions at their hospital.
The strike will be the first nurses' strike at a Greater Boston hospital in more than 25 years and it has been sanctioned by the most overwhelming nurses strike vote in Massachusetts history, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association and National Nurses United.
RNs said they submitted more than 150 official written reports of unsafe staffing incidents to management in the last 14 months. Tensions reached a breaking point in February when the hospital owner shut down a 40-bed nursing unit, nurses added.
"We feel that we have a duty to our patients, our practice and to each other to take action. We also consider it to be our duty to the future of this hospital that we love," said Paula Ryan, a nurse at the hospital and chairwoman of the MNA local bargaining unit. "This is our hospital and we want it to succeed. But when you find yourself to be in a hole, the first step is to stop digging. We are at the point where we have to stay 'stop.' "
Earlier this week Christopher Murphy, spokesman for the Steward Health Care System, said the one-day strike was part of "a standard negotiating playbook," and negotiations are ongoing.
"No patient will be negatively impacted or has been negatively impacted. The quality at Quincy Medical Center has increased dramatically and continues to increase," he said. "This hospital is in excellent shape. Any patient who uses QMC should be very comfortable that they will get excellent care."
Murphy added the hospital unit in question was "flexed down" because of low patient volume and that the hospital "can staff it and use it again at any time if volume increases."
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