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The Massachusetts Nurses Association and staff at Tobey Hospital in Wareham are expressing concerns for Southcoast Health’s plan to close the facility’s maternity unit. Southcoast Health recently announced an expansion of the maternity unit at St. Luke’s Hospital, in New Bedford, and the closure of Tobey’s unit on December 31.
Andreessen Horowitz has led a $15 million Series A in US-based job matching platform for nursing vacancies, Incredible Health. Other investors in the funding round include NFX, Obvious Ventures, Precursor Ventures and Gingerbread Capital. To date the recruitment startup has raised a total of $17M.
Nicole Hatem thought she was in a good spot when she graduated from Philadelphia’s Jefferson College of Nursing in May. She had landed a job offer to be a staff nurse at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and was slated to start in July. All she needed to do was pass her license exam.
Registered nurses at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs and Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree plan to strike on Sept. 20 to urge hospital management for better working conditions. The one-day strike was announced Tuesday after the California Nurses Association and management at Tenet, the parent company of the two hospitals, failed to resolve ongoing labor disputes. By law, the union had to give the hospitals a 10-day notice of the planned strike.
About 2,300 nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center plan to hold a one-day strike Sept. 20, months after their contract expired. The strike is scheduled to start at 7 a.m. Sept. 20 and continue until 7 a.m. the next day.