The proposed contract, which has yet to be voted on by union members, has a major focus on limits around visiting nurses, also called traveling nurses, that many hospitals rely on to fill staff shortages.
The Healthy Incentives Program, known as HIP, provides food insecure households with funds to buy produce from farmstands, farmers markets and farm share programs around the commonwealth.
The program, known as the Military to Medicine pilot, would allow former military medics to get jobs in Massachusetts health care while also supporting hospitals facing workforce shortages.
This Peabody Award–winning podcast dives into the cynicism that hangs over the topic of American infrastructure. No project embodies that cynicism quite like ‘The Big Dig.’