Healthy Workforce

The Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association strongly supports the goals of having a healthy workforce. Our efforts range from providing the necessary immunizations to working to ensure a safe working environment for staff and patients.

MHA’s quality and patient safety website, PatientCareLink.org, has extensive information on hospital and other healthcare providers’ efforts to promote safe working environments. Click here to go to the PCL Workplace Safety pages.
09.10.2018  | Ergonomics Program Builds on Hospital Improvement Efforts
The Center for Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace has released an online program to help nurses prevent musculoskeletal injuries.
08.20.2018  | Caring for the Caregiver Update
Over the past year, MHA has worked with its members across the commonwealth to address issues of workplace safety and wellbeing.
06.18.2018  | AMA Denounces “Carnage of Gun Violence”
The American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) House of Delegates met last week and adopted a series of positions, including those addressing gun violence and pharmaceutical shortages.
06.11.2018  | Signature Healthcare’s Hollon Receives Lane Award
Kim Hollon, president & CEO of Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, was presented with the prestigious 2018 William L. Lane Hospital Advocate Award.
05.07.2018  | Gratitude for Those Who Care for Us
Over the past year, MHA has worked with its membership across the commonwealth to address issues of workplace safety and wellbeing.
05.07.2018  | Nurses Decry Ratio Bill at State House Hearing
Last Monday, April 30, approximately 180 opponents of government-mandated nurse staffing ratios attended a hearing on ratio legislation before the Joint Committee on Public Health.
01.22.2018  | MHA and MMS Meet to Stem Tide of M.D. Burnout
Last Wednesday, the new MHA-MMS Joint Task Force on Physician Burnout held its first meeting.
01.19.2018  | Flu Has Affected Hospital Volume, Supplies, Staffing
The harsh flu season has resulted in a spike in boarding at Massachusetts acute care hospital emergency departments.
12.19.2017  | SB1174 etal Omnibus Healthcare Facilities Testimony
SB1174, HB1181/SB1183, SB1269, HB1136, HB1137, HB1207, HB3250, SB1248, SB1270, HB1175, HB1197, SB1230, HB2441, HB2477, HB3514, SB1212, SB1234 Healthcare Facilities
12.04.2017  | Judge Rejects Nurse Union’s Anti-Vaccination Effort
The Massachusetts Nurses Association’s attempt to violate Brigham and Women’ Hospital’s mandatory flu vaccination policy was rejected by a Suffolk Superior Court judge.
10.30.2017  | Addressing Physician Burnout
Bring together sector leaders for a state-of-the-state discussion of Massachusetts healthcare and one recurring theme that arises, in addition to cost and quality issues, is physician burnout.
07.14.2015  | An Act Strengthening the Penalty for Assault or Assault and Battery on Emergency Medical Technicians
The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA), on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, appreciates this opportunity to offer testimony in support of HB1164, which seeks to amend and clarify the protections afforded to the Commonwealth’s

Resources

Click on the link below to see The Massachusetts Behavioral Health System Report: Implications of Mandated Nurse Staffing Ratios (August 2018).