Tufts and the Massachusetts Nurses Association, which represents the nurses, have been unable to agree on a contract. The nurses’ current contract is set to expire this week unless the two sides reach an agreement in their last scheduled session with a federal mediator, according to the report.
The nurses and the hospital are at odds over patient staffing levels, which the nurses argue ask them to care for too many patients. The hospital counters that some nurse duties have been shifted to other staff, and the hospital still “fares well on various measures of quality care,” according to the report.
Read the Boston Globe report on Tufts Medical Center.
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