Mount Sinai nurses’ strike preparations affect surgeries, patients
Three hospitals have begun to discharge patients. Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai West plan to run inpatient services, while Mount Sinai Morningside is operating as an independent emergency department and inpatient pediatric psychiatry unit during the time of the incident. strike.
While administrators expect the NYSNA to rescind the 10-day strike notice they gave over the weekend, the memo states that hospitals must continue to plan their strikes.
According to the memo, hospitals continue to negotiate in good faith with NYSNA nurses, and the groups have reached preliminary agreements on a number of issues including health insurance, pensions and pandemic preparedness. .
Thousands of NYSNA nurses voted last month to allow the strike, with nurses at some hospitals still in the process of voting.
There are about 17,000 union nurses at 12 private hospitals in the city who are demanding higher wages and improved staff-to-patient ratios.
Before Thursday morning, hospitals were largely silent about their plans to prepare for a strike.
This story first appeared in Crain’s New York Business.