To: Anne Klibanski, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Partners HealthCare

CC: Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, President, Brigham Health; Peter L. Slavin, MD, President, Mass General Hospital; David O. McCready, MBA, MHA, President, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital; Joanne Marqusee, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cooley Dickinson Hospital; Denise Schepici, MPH, President & Chief Executive Officer, Martha’s Vineyard Hospital; John Fernandez, President, Massachusetts Eye and Ear; Scott L. Rauch, MD, President and Psychiatrist in Chief, McLean Hospital; Gary A. Shaw, FACHE, President & Chief Executive Officer, Nantucket Cottage Hospital; Gregg Meyer, MD, Interim President, Newton-Wellesley Hospital; David J. Roberts, MD, President, North Shore Medical Center; David E. Storto, President, Partners Continuing Care and Spaulding Rehabilitation Network; Gregory J. Walker, FACHE, President & Chief Executive Officer, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital

We, the undersigned Partners HealthCare staff, write to request a wage increase for our colleagues who work as custodians, food service workers, front desk staff, valets, early career nurses, patient services coordinators, and other patient support roles that are vital to the safe functioning of our hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. As essential workers, we have all taken on new roles and personal risk in order to serve our communities. However, we are deeply concerned that some of our colleagues have assumed this risk while working for wages that do not allow them to provide for themselves and their families, particularly given that other members of their households may have recently lost employment.

Partners HealthCare had a net operating income of $484 million in 2019 and the CEO of our non-profit health system earns more than $2 million per year. Even with reported losses of $5 million/day from cancellation of elective procedures due to coronavirus, it would take Partners approximately five years to spend down its net assets of over $9 billion. Our state and federal government have taken extraordinary measures to support working people in the face of the coronavirus’s economic devastation. Partners can afford to do the same, and has an ethical obligation to adequately compensate workers who are risking their lives in service to their communities.

We therefore request that the minimum wage for all Partners HealthCare employees be raised to the Boston living wage for a family of four with one working adult, $32.00/hour. Our colleagues deserve to live with dignity as they work tirelessly to provide safe, clean hospitals for the people of Massachusetts.