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A coalition of registered nurses with the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA),
along with patients, families, advocates and elected officials who have been
fighting for the preservation of mental health beds across Western Massachusetts,
has launched a new campaign, ?Mental Health is Public Health,? to save essential
inpatient psychiatric services, according to a March 16 news release. The effort
comes as Trinity Health plans to close 74 pediatric and adult psychiatric beds at
Providence Behavioral Health Hospital in Holyoke; Baystate Health seeks the
closure of all its mental health beds in Greenfield, Palmer and Westfield; and
COVID?19 places additional pressure on already?strained emergency departments and
other hospital services throughout the region. ?These proposed closures would
devastate an already?strained mental health system,? said Cindy Chaplin, RN at
Providence and co?chair of the MNA Bargaining Committee. ?Right now, we need to
maximize capacity in emergency departments and other hospital units, not decrease
services. When everyone else in Massachusetts agrees we should be making it
easier for patients to get high?quality mental healthcare, Trinity Health is
going in the opposite direction.?