A majority of the hospital’s 236 nurses, all members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, voted to strike after Quincy’s parent, Boston-based Steward Health Care System, shut down a 40-bed nursing unit. Thirty nurses were laid off as a result of the closure.
Those nurses who voted to strike said the layoffs have created unsafe patient conditions at the hospital, according to the report. Their strike will begin at 6 a.m. April 11 and end at 6 a.m. the next the day.
Chris Murphy, spokesperson for Steward, said in the report that patient care will not suffer. Rather, Mr. Murphy said “the MNA wants to cling to the old ways even though the old ways are what drove Quincy into bankruptcy less than two years ago,” according to the report. Steward became Quincy’s owner in 2011.
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