{"id":103685,"date":"2026-01-18T01:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/103685\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T01:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:05:13","slug":"exclusive-nyc-nurses-strike-spurred-3-deaths-at-mount-sinai-union-honchos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/103685\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | NYC nurses strike spurred 3 deaths at Mount Sinai: union honchos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0massive nurses strike<\/a>\u00a0hitting three major New York City hospital systems now has a body count.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been at least three deaths at Mount Sinai \u2014 including two babies who died during delivery and a 24-year-old intensive-care-unit patient \u2014 since nurses at the hospital, Montefiore Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian hit the picket lines Monday, according to a union official who attributed the deaths in part to lack of care because of the strike.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur PCAs [patient care associates] are saying a lot more code blues are being called,\u201d the union honcho and longtime Mount Sinai\u2019s nurse, who requested anonymity, told The Post Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"nursesThe strike is already in its sixth day. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

The startling revelation came as the strike by nearly 15,000 NYC nurses \u2014 which has the support of Mayor Zohran Mamdani <\/a>\u2014 reached its sixth day.<\/p>\n

\u201cCode blue means somebody\u2019s dead. It has a medical emergency. So, like, you have to start CPR\u00a0and an emergency\u00a0team comes. It\u2019s normally doctors, nurses, nurse\u00a0practitioners, anesthesia, and respiratory. It\u2019s literally just to try to resuscitate someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hearing that more alerts are being called,\u201d she added. \u201cOur patients are sicker. And more people are dying. I mean, I\u2019m not gonna lie to you about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The official also claimed the temporary nurses being used by the three hospitals to fill the void are overwhelmed and overworked, adding, \u201cthere are some really unsafe things happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strike is the largest nurses\u2019 walkout in city history and the longest in recent memory, far surpassing the 7,000 workers who picketed for three days in 2023.<\/p>\n

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But while hospital executives were caught off guard three years ago by the strike \u2014 which ended with favorable contracts for the nurses \u2014 they\u2019ve taken an aggressive stance this go-round, after the New York State Nurses Association pushed for staffing and pay increases as well as to maintain health benefits.<\/p>\n

Katie Duke, a retired nurse practitioner at Mount Sinai also picketing for the\u00a0NYSNA, said she regularly hears from other staffers at the hospital who also believe the strike has turned deadly \u2013 including for the 24-year-old who allegedly died in the intensive care unit while on a machine that helps circulate blood flow and breathing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the highest level of life support for somebody who\u2019s waiting on, like, a lung transplant,\u201d Duke said<\/p>\n

\"nurses Nurses claim patients have died due to insufficient care since the strike began. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, the patient \u2026 wasn\u2019t restrained and sedated properly. \u2029He pulled a tube out of his neck, and he died.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are things happening inside, because this hospital is settling for staff who are not qualified to take care of patients, because they refuse to negotiate with the nurses and give them their contract,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo they are sacrificing patient safety. And the problem with this is that hospitals feel like nurses are so easily replaceable, but they\u2019re not\u2026 My heart goes out to that patient\u2019s family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reps for Mount Sinai declined comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0massive nurses strike\u00a0hitting three major New York City hospital systems now has a body count. There\u2019s been at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,22195,9,23187,56,63,65,64,23289,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-103685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-metro","9":"tag-mount-sinai-hospital","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-nurses","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-strikes","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}