Metro: Voting “yes” on Question 1 on the November ballot would limit the number of patients that could be assigned to each registered nurse in Massachusetts hospitals and other health care facilities. 

Athol Daily News: The Patient Safety Act, which would set a limit on the number of patients assigned to a nurse at one time, has secured a spot on the November 2018 ballot. According to the Committee to Ensure Safe Patient Care, which drafted the proposed law, the Secretary of the Commonwealth notified the committee the office certified 18,145 signatures in favor of the safety act.

Boston.com: Question 1 would place a limit on the number of patients a single nurse can be assigned at a time and impose a $25,000 fine on hospitals that violate those ratios.

Mass Live: Massachusetts voters will see three questions on their ballot when they head inside the polling booths in November 2018. Bill Galvin, the state’s elections chief, assigned the numbers to the ballot questions.

Boston Business Journal: On Monday, the Committee to Ensure Safe Patient Care said the Secretary of the Commonwealth had certified 18,145 signatures to put a question on the ballot in November — far more than the 10,972 required signatures. The approval comes a few weeks after the Supreme Judicial Court rejected a challenge to the initiative by a hospital-backed group.