Legislation to Enact Safe Patient Limits for Registered Nurses and Address the Underlying Causes of the Massachusetts Hospital Staffing and Patient Care Quality Crisis Will Receive State House Hearing on September 20

Massachusetts nurses filed more than 12,600 unsafe staffing reports from January 2022 to July 2023, showing patient safety risks that can be addressed by safe patient limits Legislation requiring the DPH to create specific nurse-patient limits in hospital units would tackle years of…