We, as community members, stand with Baystate Noble Hospital nurses and Baystate VNA clinicians seeking to ensure safe patient care through improved working conditions and investment in their healthcare workforce. Baystate is a non-profit healthcare organization with an obligation to provide community members with access to local, quality care.

• Noble nurses and Baystate VNA clinicians are struggling with burnout and moral injury due to unsafe staffing that is jeopardizing patient safety.
• A combination of poor working conditions and non-competitive wages has prompted many nurses to look for work elsewhere and has impeded recruitment efforts.

• Wages for experienced and newer nurses at Noble are lagging far behind other Western Mass hospitals.
  • Nurses at Baystate Franklin Medical Center make $6.20 more per hour at the top of their wage step scale and $3.92 per hour more at the bottom of the scale than Noble nurses.
  • Nurses at Berkshire Medical Center make $13.69 more per hour at the top and $10.46 more per hour at the bottom than Noble nurses.
  • Nurses at Cooley Dickinson Hospital make $10.48 more per hour at the top and $4.86 more per hour at the bottom than Noble nurses.
  • Nurses at Mercy Medical Center make $6.28 more per hour at the top and $6.33 more per hour at the bottom than Noble nurses.

Baystate executives must agree to fair contracts that addresses recruitment and retention problems and provide the support Noble nurses and Baystate VNA clinicians need to deliver the quality care patients deserve.

UPDATE: The petition language was updated to include Baystate VNA clinicians who are advocating about similar issues and are in solidarity with Noble nurses.