{"id":476289,"date":"2026-02-18T18:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476289\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:27:20","slug":"newyork-presbyterian-hit-with-400000-penalty-for-understaffing-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476289\/","title":{"rendered":"NewYork-Presbyterian hit with $400,000 penalty for understaffing hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian in Manhattan continue to strike, they won a legal battle on Monday during the ongoing labor standoff.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysna.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)<\/a> said that their members at NewYork-Presbyterian\u2019s Morgan Stanley Children\u2019s Hospital (CHONY) in Washington Heights won an arbitral award on Feb. 15 that exposed \u201cchronic understaffing\u201d in a pediatric intensive care unit.<\/p>\n<p>According to NYSNA, an arbitrator found that the hospital had violated safe staffing provisions more than 600 times between Jan. 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024. As a result, the nurses received an award for nearly $400,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how many NYSNA nurses were part of the settlement.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>NYSNA\u2019s legal victory comes as over 4,000 of its members enter the sixth week of NYC\u2019s nurses strike, with safe staffing remaining a key issue in labor talks. Representatives for the union said nurses were concerned about staffing shortages in their unit, prompting them to start documenting staffing levels in 2023. An arbitrator found that the record \u201cestablished a perceived pattern of violations,\u201d leading to the nurses\u2019 win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the financial remedies are nice, what we really want is more nurses and a contract that makes it harder for the hospital to avoid taking accountability,\u201d said Sophie Boland, a registered nurse at CHONY. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re on strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the victory, NYSNA reps said the hospital is appealing in federal court.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t take years to get an acknowledgement of the conditions we\u2019ve worked under when NewYork-Presbyterian could just do the right thing and safely staff the hospital,\u201d Boland said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for NewYork-Presbyterian said in response to amNewYork\u2019s inquiry about the case that safe staffing is \u201calways a priority and an essential aspect of delivering outstanding patient care\u201d at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPost-pandemic, we have filled vacancies and grown our nursing teams,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cWe proactively hired more than 400 new nurses over the last three years alone at our Columbia hospitals and have proposed hiring more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NewYork-Presbyterian nurses entered day 37 of the city\u2019s nurses strike on Tuesday. The strike began on Jan. 12, nearly two weeks after the nurses\u2019 contract expired on Dec. 31, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over 10,000 NYSNA nurses from Montefiore and Mount Sinai were part of the strike until they reached agreements with management at their respective hospitals and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/lifestyle\/health\/nurses-strike-nysna-nurses-back-to-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">returned to work<\/a> on Feb. 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although a deal to end the strike was on the horizon at NewYork-Presbyterian last week, NYSNA nurses at the hospital ultimately voted down a mediator\u2019s proposal that they said \u201cfailed to adequately address\u201d their staffing concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New bargaining dates have not yet been set between NYSNA and NewYork-Presbyterian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian in Manhattan continue to strike, they won a legal battle on Monday during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,220443,198733,220444,176174],"class_list":{"0":"post-476289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-newyork-presbyterian","12":"tag-nurses-strike","13":"tag-nysna","14":"tag-pm-newsletter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}