Taryn Harding, pictured at a SHARE “Smile for a Raise” event supporting contract negotiations at Marlborough Hospital.
Marlborough Hospital SHARE Members Celebrate
Good news came on Friday night in a surprising twist in the saga of the MGB proposal to build three new huge ambulatory centers west of Boston: MGB retracted the proposal. MGB got word that the Department of Public Health was going to deny their application.
Taryn Harding, Ultrasound Tech and SHARE Executive Board Member at Marlborough Hospital testified in the DPH hearings about the proposed Mass General Brigham expansion in Westborough. Taryn says:
“I am so excited and relieved to hear the news that MGB won’t be opening down the street! People told me ‘they (MGB) are a giant, a monster - you won’t be able to stop them. It’s in the bag - there’s nothing you can do’. Well, all of our hard work meeting, writing, and testifying has paid off! When great people come together and give it their all, they can achieve truly amazing things.”
Taryn Harding and Courtney DesRosiers pictured delivering a mega Valentine’s Day card to management in support of contract negotiations.
SHARE opposed the plan to open an MGB ambulatory center in Westborough because it threatened SHARE jobs at Marlborough Hospital, and because it would increase the cost of health insurance for SHARE members.
According to Community Advocate: State Sen. Jamie Eldridge [pictured below with SHARE leaders], who has loudly opposed the MGB proposal, promptly celebrated on social media.
‘This was an impressive organizing campaign including the ‘Boroughs legislative delegation, hospital unions, doctors and nurses, and municipal officials, to defeat MGB trying to bring surgical centers to communities including Westborough, that would have increased healthcare costs, and threaten[ed] care for low-income patients,” he wrote.
“David can beat Goliath!” he added.
Courtney Desrosiers, Ambulatory Services Rep and SHARE Executive Member at Marlborough Hospital puts it this way, “Marlborough Hospital is important to the community. Patients rely on our quality of care, and our caregivers are always striving to improve their experience. Our patients need us to be here for them.”
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SHARE Leaders met with legislators to update them about progress on contract negotiations at Marlboro Hospital and to urge them to oppose the MGB expansion.