Do you have a story about great care you or a loved one received at Baystate Noble in Westfield? Or maybe you have been negatively affected by the closure of the Noble ICU and other Baystate Noble cuts? Since the closures and cutbacks at Noble, do you now have to travel farther for care? Are you concerned about Baystate's plans to close the Fowler unit, reducing access to local mental health care? Please share your experience in the below form and show your support for the Noble nurses currently pushing to save Noble and keep care local in their ongoing contract negotiations!

***Also, join the MNA and Senator John Velis at an upcoming virtual community forum at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, October 6 to hear about the future of inpatient healthcare at Noble. More info on the event can be found at https://www.facebook.com/events/3574502152688733/ or simply join us on the 6th at this link: www.massnurses.org/NobleZoom

For more context:
Within the last year, Baystate Noble-- a community hospital serving Westfield and many of the surrounding Hilltowns-- has seen the closure of their intensive care unit and the merger of their medical-surgical and telemetry units, which led to layoffs of two-thirds of the registered nurses on the medical-surgical floor. Baystate is also moving forward with plans to close the Noble Fowler mental health wing, along with 2 more of their western Mass mental health centers, to consolidate their mental health services into a for-profit center in Holyoke despite the fact that the community overwhelming supports bringing back services and keeping care local, especially during this pandemic. Find out more about this campaign here: https://thewestfieldnews.com/survey-community-overwhelmingly-against-cuts-at-baystate-noble/