Saint Vincent Hospital

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester on Tuesday said it has added another 49 permanent replacement positions for the striking members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association union, as the 72-day fight over staffing ratios continues.

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester on Wednesday said it will start permanently replacing the members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association union, in a sign the 66-day fight over staffing ratios is reaching a long-term impasse.

Reliant Medical Group of Worcester on Monday opened its new Oncology & Infusion Center in Worcester, moving the service out of the Saint Vincent Wellness & Cancer center in downtown Worcester.

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester and the union Massachusetts Nurses Association appear to be closer to ending the nurses strike ongoing since March 8, after the hospital agreed to modify contract language around staffing levels.

Saint Vincent Hospital met with union nurses on Monday for the first time in more than eight weeks, but the gathering didn't bring the two sides any closer to an agreement to end a strike ongoing since March 8.

For more than a month and a half, Saint Vincent Hospital’s administration and hundreds of nurses have been locked in a tense strike over staffing levels.

More than three weeks into a nurse strike at Saint Vincent Hospital that doesn't appear close to a resolution, the number of union nurses crossing the picket line has slowly risen.

Saint Vincent Hospital normally has hundreds of cameras throughout its Worcester campus, including its parking garage and along its exterior. But during what's become a weeks-long strike, the hospital has set up portable cameras in various locations to aid security.

First, Saint Vincent Hospital adjusted to the hypervigilance and fortitude needed to make it through the coronavirus pandemic. Then it picked up management and staffing of a vaccination site at Worcester State University — just before facing a strike involving hundreds of nurses.

Saint Vincent Hospital has reached the two-week mark in a high-profile nurses strike, but it's reached an agreement with a smaller union representing patient care assistants, housekeepers and others.