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<P><SPAN
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Patient Safety</SPAN> </P><SPAN
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<P align=center><FONT size=5><STRONG><FONT
color=navy>Help pass the Patient Safety
Act!<BR>Patient Safety Act Hearing and Lobby
Day!<BR></FONT><FONT size=4><EM>Wednesday,
October 24, <BR>Hearing starts at 10am, State
House</EM></FONT></STRONG></FONT></P>
<P align=center>HB 2059, The Patient Safety Act,
will require the Department of Public Health to
set a limit on the number of patients a nurse
has to care for at one time. This is a common
sense solution to a growing health
care crisis. <A
title=http://www.massjwj.net/node/2158
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our webpage for more information and updates</A>
on the campaign. <BR><BR>Send your message
now and join us at that public hearing
to pass this legislation! Transportation
from many points across Massachusetts is
available and lunch will be provided. For more
information, please contact <SPAN
class=665313119-10102007>Jon Weissman</SPAN>
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a letter </A>to the following decision
maker(s):</SPAN> <BR><SPAN
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State Senator (if you live in
Massachusetts)<BR></SPAN></P>
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<P>Subject: Support Patient Safety</P>
<P>Dear [decision maker name automatically
inserted here],</P>
<P>Patients in hospitals continue to suffer
because their nurse is forced to care for too
many patients at once, resulting in preventable
medical errors, increased complications, and
hospital acquired infections. Even as the
industry records $1 billion in profits annually,
hospital continue to staff at unsafe
levels.<BR><BR>I Support HB 2059, An Act
Relative to Patient Safety, which will require
the Department of Public Health to set limits on
the number of patients that a nurse has to care
for at once. This is a straightforward, common
sense solution to the nurse staffing crisis that
includes safeguards that hospitals have asked
for. <BR><BR>I ask you to lend your support to
HB 2059. Thank you! </P>
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target=_blank>Click here to take action</A> on
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<P><SPAN
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At Stake:</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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<P><STRONG><FONT color=navy size=5>Patient
Safety Matters to Organized
Labor</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT color=blue>Understaffing
Creates a Dangerous Environment for RNs and
Patients:</FONT></STRONG></P>
<UL>
<LI>In their pursuit of profits at any cost,
hospitals have taken to "speeding up the line"
by giving nurses more patients than they can
safely care for at a time. This leads to a
hazardous work environment where injuries and
burnout are more likely to occur. It also leads
to an increase in preventable medical errors,
putting the lives of patients at risk.
<LI><FONT color=black>Nurses enter the
profession to provide care to our society's most
vulnerable and to earn an honest living. They
should not be subjected to these brutal,
dangerous and unfair working conditions.</FONT>
<LI>These conditions are driving registered
nurses out of the profession, with less than 50%
of RNs in Massachusetts working bedside (Opinion
Dynamics Survey, June 2003) and over 40% of
bedside nurses work only part time (U.S. Dept.
of Health and Human Services).</LI></UL>
<P><STRONG><FONT color=blue>The Patient Safety
Act Protects Non-RN Staff:</FONT></STRONG></P>
<UL>
<LI>The bill includes stipulations that would
protect the jobs of licensed practical nurses,
aides and technicians, and it instructs the
Dept. of Public Health to account for these
support staff in the development of staffing
limits.
<LI>The Patient Safety Act will add nurses to
the health care team while protecting everyone
else on it. </LI></UL>
<P><STRONG><FONT color=blue>The Patient Safety
Act will reduce health care costs while
improving quality:</FONT></STRONG></P>
<UL>
<LI>Health care costs continue to escalate,
straining employers and employees alike. The
Patient Safety Act helps to combat rising costs
by reducing hospital stays, expensive medical
errors, and the financial strain of replacing
nurses who leave the profession due to burnout.
At the same time it helps to ensure that quality
of patient care will improve for those who fall
ill across the Commonwealth.</LI></UL>
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25, 2007
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