Governor Baker: Save Essential Western Mass Mental Health Beds!
Save the Date: Rally at the State House June 29 at 11 a.m.
A diverse coalition will gather outside the State House in Boston on June 29 to protest the imminent closure of 74 pediatric and adult psychiatric beds at Providence Behavioral Health Hospital.
Hospital owner Trinity Health plans to permanently close the beds on June 30 even though they were deemed “necessary for preserving access and health” by the Department of Public Health and Trinity is a billion-dollar corporation receiving millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 reimbursement money.
Learn more: https://www.massnurses.org/news-and-events/p/openItem/11740
We call on Gov. Baker to immediately halt this closure.
• These are the only child mental health beds in all of Western Massachusetts.
• Mental health is public health. People are struggling to access psychiatric care across Massachusetts.
• Closure means more patients boarding for days or weeks in emergency departments.
• More patients waiting in EDs during the COVID-19 pandemic is a grave threat to public health.
JOIN US on JUNE 29 at 11 a.m.!
Learn more: https://www.massnurses.org/news-and-events/p/openItem/11740
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