(NEW YORK CITY) – Last week (on Thursday, November 13th), New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Nurses continued a second week of action to demand New York City Private Hospitals invest in safe patient care – rather than executive pay and risky speculations on Artificial Intelligence (AI).
CEOs at Montefiore, Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian now make, on average, nearly 12,000% more than Registered Nurses on the front lines caring for patients.
And Mount Sinai recently shelled out a whopping $100 million on just one AI facility.
The bottom line – NYSNA says, is the City’s Private Hospitals can afford to put patients first.
Amidst looming Federal health care cuts, Nurses and their allies are calling on the City’s Private Sector Hospitals to do their part to protect New York patients.
NYSNA Nurses and Health Care Professionals have mobilized to protect health care across New York State ahead of the Trump Administration’s impending health care cuts.
If President Donald Trump’s cuts proceed, the number of uninsured New Yorkers will likely increase by more than a million, health insurance premiums could go up for all, and New York could lose billions in Federal health care funding.
NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said: “The time is now for hospitals to step up and take safe patient care seriously. We’ve watched hospitals like Mount Sinai attempt to veil the extent to which they’ve prioritized their money-making ventures over the patients of this City. We’re here to say enough is enough. The wealthiest hospitals need to stop playing games with (AI) and invest in care for those who need it most. Nurses, who have been on the frontlines of caring for patients and have been ruthless in their fight to protect Federal health care funding, are demanding hospitals do their part.”
Meanwhile, hospitals have ignored staffing issues that put safe patient care at risk, choosing to spend thousands on meritless lawsuits and arbitration awards rather than following Safe Staffing Standards.
In order to inform the public, NYSNA has launched a new website – www.nychospitalgreed.com – to expose how New York City’s Private Hospitals put profits before people.
Their campaign: Nurses Care for New York, defends New York’s Health Care System and ensures all New Yorkers have access to safe patient care.
Approximately 20,000 NYSNA-represented Nurses at 12 Private Sector Hospitals whose contracts expire on December 31st (2025) are united around a five-point platform: Quality patient care through enforceable safe staffing; Defend access to care when patients’ health care services and staff are under attack; Protect Nurses, so they can continue to care for their patients; That every patient deserves a real Nurse; and Fair wages and benefits to recruit and retain Nurses.
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