WORCESTER ― Some nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital are expected to deliver a petition Wednesday morning to hospital leadership to demand that they fix problems that nurses claim endanger the lives of patients.
The nurses are scheduled to enter the hospital’s entrance on Summer Street at 10:30 a.m. to deliver the petition.
Their essential complaint is that severe understaffing results in patients not getting the care they need. The petition comes more than two years after nurses and Saint Vincent agreed on a contract that ended the longest nurses strike in state history. The walkout lasted more than 300 days.
Saint Vincent officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nurses filed more than 600 complaints with various regulatory bodies since July that claimed unsafe working conditions. Some nurses were fired, suspended and voluntarily left after speaking out about the challenges inside the hospital, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association.
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