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Kristin's avatar

Just a heads up - the link for the survey is broken.

I feel like the cancer center is different from the NICU issues - the cancer center was able to be purchased by a different medical center because of what it does and how it's housed separately from the hospital.

I was fortunate enough not to need the NICU at Framingham Union when my kids were born there, but I think of all the women who live near by who may have to be separated from their babies if the NICU is gone and their baby needs one but they also continue to need postpartum care. People will go elsewhere and then we'll lose maternity services altogether. Which is probably Tenet's goal because they're horrible.

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Mary Kate Feeney's avatar

Thanks - seems like the city pulled down the survey once I mentioned it. Maybe they shouldn't have put it on their big sign before the survey was ready to go.

It is clear Tenet sees Framingham Union as a land deal that they can piece off and sell. You are correct - if the NICU is gone, then so will families using the nursery at the hospital. What they are doing to our community hospital is devastating. I wish we could get the same attention the Steward hospitals received.

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