A handful of New York City hospitals are scaling back services and preparing to bring in temporary staff as they brace for a potential nurses' strike that could start Monday morning. Some 10,000 nurses could strike if negotiations continue to stall.
But some New York City hospital representatives are now pushing back — and calling out nurses for not accepting their contract offers. They are highlighting how a strike could threaten patient safety.
Raske added that some hospitals are prepared to spend “tens of millions of dollars” to hire temporary staff in the case of a strike but that “even those institutions will experience dangerous gaps in care because of the nurses’ lack of experience on specific units.” “We are working to safely discharge as many patients as appropriate,” the hospital presidents said in the letter, which was provided to Gothamist by Mount Sinai spokesperson Lucia Lee.
The letter said hospital management had offered nurses “a deal comparable to New York-Presbyterian’s agreement with NYSNA on wages and benefits,” but nurses had not accepted it. This claim was echoed by representatives from Montefiore Medical Center.
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