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Nurses at the soon-to-close Youngstown, Ohio-based Northside Regional Medical Center have reached a tentative contract agreement with Dallas-based Steward Health Care, according to a Tribune Chronicle report.

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Registered nurses at 15 hospitals affiliated with Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare have voted to authorize their nurse negotiators to call a strike if issues the nurses have raised in ongoing contract negotiations remain unresolved.

During discussions about the Affordable Care Act over the past few years, we’ve assumed that hospitals, generally, have supported the landmark healthcare reform legislation. The expansion of insurance coverage to more people, reduces the amount of uncompensated care.

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