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YOUNGSTOWN – Nurses at Northside Regional Medical Center ratified an agreement with hospital operator Steward Health Care, according to a union official.
However, “due to the terms of this agreement, we cannot discuss further details,” said Molly Homan, director of communications for the Ohio Nurses Association, in an email Thursday morning to the Tribune Chronicle.
The vote total is unknown.
Leadership with the Youngstown General Duty Nurses Association, which represents 188 nurses at the hospital on Gypsy Lane, and Steward officials reached a tentative agreement on Thursday.
The union was to negotiate severance packages with Steward at the end of August into early this month after the Boston-based health care provider announced Aug. 15 it would be closing the facility on Sept. 20 due to it being under utilized.
Union officials said Aug. 16 outside the facility that the goal of the negotiations was to make sure members received severance packages large enough to give them adequate time to find jobs with comparable pay elsewhere in the region.