{"id":278917,"date":"2025-11-08T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278917\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:15:10","slug":"nurses-union-worried-about-western-mass-hospitals-following-possible-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278917\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses union worried about Western Mass. hospitals following possible merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/westernmass\/\" title=\"Navigate to Western Massachusetts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Massachusetts<\/a>Updated: Nov. 07, 2025, 2:42 p.m.|Published: Nov. 07, 2025, 2:04 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TSU5X2PB5BH4VLATCDVYGBC5WA\">The commonwealth\u2019s largest nurses union is worried about the future of health care in Western Massachusetts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7Q2RBAMNIBHQBL2APGK4ZKUBPA\">\u201cSpringfield and the greater Western Massachusetts region cannot afford to lose another hospital service,\u201d Jaime Hyatt, RN, and Dee Doyle, RN, co-chairs of the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) Bargaining Committee at Mercy, said in a statement Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5VXTTNZOCVARJO4765Z73WQLXE\">The fears come after leaders of Mercy Medical Center and Baystate Health are in talks that could result in an acquisition or merger of the two leading Springfield hospitals, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/westernmass\/2025\/07\/baystate-health-in-talks-about-acquiring-mercy-medical-center-sources-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/westernmass\/2025\/07\/baystate-health-in-talks-about-acquiring-mercy-medical-center-sources-say.html\">Republican<\/a> newspaper. <\/p>\n<p>Heather leads the breaking news and public safety teams. She has worked for MassLive as a reporter and a social media producer. She was formerly a freelancer in Los Angeles, working for Religion News Service,&#8230; more<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western MassachusettsUpdated: Nov. 07, 2025, 2:42 p.m.|Published: Nov. 07, 2025, 2:04 p.m. The commonwealth\u2019s largest nurses union is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[147118,147119,97,252,253,1493,117287,28783],"class_list":["post-278917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-ae0729hospital","tag-emergency-rooms","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital","tag-mercy-medical-center","tag-the-republican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}