Local nurses continue to face bounced checks, burnout [Video]

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) – Our reports this week on employees going unpaid at a nursing home in South Hadley as well as others across the state are highlighting a bigger issue, burnout in the nursing field.

We have been reporting all week about the bounced checks at Pioneer Valley Rehabilitation Center here in South Hadley, one nurse I have been keeping in contact with told us that while some staff members have been able to cash a check this week, she still has not been paid and her previous checks are continuing to bounce.

On Friday, we spoke with the Director of Nursing at AIC and she told us in her 50-year career, she has never heard of nurses not getting paid.

Staff members at Pioneer Valley Rehabilitation Center in South Hadley told Western Mass News that for months they have been overworked, understaffed, and undersupplied. All while dealing …