Thousands of nurses at New York City hospitals went on strike this morning as they negotiate for higher pay and increased staffing in their first new contracts since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Here's which hospitals will be affected and more info:
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Thousands of nurses at New York City hospitals went on strike Monday morning. The labor action has already begun to disrupt health care services at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Harlem, where about 7,100 members of the New York State Nurses Association could join the picket line.
The New York State Nurses Association first announced a plan to strike at these and other medical centers last month if the union couldn’t reach an agreement with hospital administrators. Since then, the union has landed contract deals with Richmond University Medical Center, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, BronxCare Health System, Maimonides Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian and two other hospital locations in the Mount Sinai Health System.
“Our bosses created the understaffing crisis by failing to hire and retain enough nurses … leaving the rest of us to work short staffed,” Nancy Hagans, president of the New York State Nurses Association, said in a virtual press conference on Sunday morning. “The hospital is often so overcrowded that patients are admitted in beds in the hallway instead of hospital rooms.”
View of Mount Sinai hospital, one of the private hospitals where nurses may go on strike in New York City.Frances Cartwright, the chief nursing officer at Mount Sinai Hospital, said the health system is working to fill open positions — and said administrators should focus on doing that before committing to additional hires. She added that staffing issues are not unique to Mount Sinai. “We are in a national workforce crisis,” she said.
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