Michigan-based Trinity Health, a national hospital corporation, has "temporarily" closed multiple Mercy Medical Center services after artificially creating a staffing crisis
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Registered nurses at Mercy Medical Center, represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, will hold an informational picket outside the hospital on July 17 in response to corporate owner Trinity Health recently closing 20 intermediate care beds, "temporarily" closing other essential services without any indication they will be re-opened, and creating a staffing and patient care crisis.
Informational Picket Details
When: Monday, July 17 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: On the sidewalk outside Mercy Medical Center on Carew Street in Springfield.
Who: Nurses, colleagues, and community supporters will picket and talk to the public about how Trinity's detached corporate management is jeopardizing patient care quality and access.
"Trinity Health has broken promises to the Springfield community by taking over our local hospital while claiming to be 'mission-driven,' but then closing services, refusing to adequately staff and making it harder for patients to receive quality care," said Jaime Hyatt, RN, Co-Chair of the Mercy Medical Center MNA Bargaining Committee. "Mercy patients and staff deserve better than Trinity's heartless corporate ownership."
"Mercy Medical Center nurses and the community are standing up to Trinity Health's broken promises on behalf of our patients," said Dee Doyle, RN, Co-Chair of the Mercy Medical Center MNA Bargaining Committee. "Trinity is completely detached from the needs of local patients and caregivers. The lack of management is hurting our ability to provide quality care and work in a safe environment."
Michigan-based Trinity Health ? a national hospital corporation that made $21.5 billion last year ? has systematically dismantled essential healthcare services at Mercy Medical Center and Providence Behavioral Health Hospital over the past decade.
Financial Growth at Trinity Health
In February 2023, Trinity issued a statement titled, "Trinity Health, one of the nation's largest health care systems, continues to grow strategically with reported operating revenue of $10.5 billion, an increase of 2.3 Percent." The growth came even though it saw a reduction of $129.3 million in CARES Act PRF grants year over year, according to Trinity. Despite reporting an operating loss during the first six months of FY2023, Trinity highlighted several financial strengths:
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Founded in 1903, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its 25,000 members advance the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Legislature and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.
SOURCE Massachusetts Nurses Association
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