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Nurses at Holy Family voice staffing concerns

Nurses at Holy Family Hospital are seeking to raise public awareness of their efforts to get management to address what they say is a need for more staffing at the Methuen facility.

Staffing levels are a key point of contention in the negotiations that began a year ago for the nurses’ first union contract, according to members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, which represents 370 registered nurses at Holy Family.

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I find it quite "coincidental" that the nurses protested after the son of Helen Bousquet lambasted the hospital (and the nurses) for putting his mother, who went in for knee surgery, into an unmonitored recovery room (knowing she had sleep apnea). She choked to death and no one in the hospital even knew it was happening.

Check out www.helenbousquet.com. The health department is supposedly investigating the claims, but to date they haven't called a single witness who overheard statements made by doctors and nurses to family and friends who were at the hospital following her death. What happened to this woman is simply unbelievable.

Again, go to www.helenbousquet.com to read all about what this hospital put this poor woman through.

Our lazy Attorney General needs to get off her behind, and instead of worrying about fining Burger King, should concentrate on saving LIVES. Meanwhile she just sits and does absolutely nothing while people die. Remember that when she's up for any re-election.