The union says without fair compensation, nurses will continue to leave St, Luke's creating staffing shortages, and longer work days for the remaining nurses.
A Dartmouth psychiatric facility is seeing a COVID-19 outbreak among its patients for the third time this year — and it's leading in Massachusetts as the only licensed mental health hospital with any cases reported.
Southcoast Health will require all employees and providers to be vaccinated against COVID as soon as the FDA fully approves at least one of the vaccines.
Wareham's Tobey Hospital staff's names will be a part of the new building for decades to come. The employees signed a beam that is part of the new ER expansion.
Southcoast Health is offering walk-up vaccinations to anyone who wants them at clinics in Fall River and Dartmouth today through May 6, with more planned.
According to Southcoast Health, the state is prioritizing distributing their vaccine supply to their state-controlled mass vaccination sites, rather than hospitals and health systems.