Although the 2017 elections were local, the stakes were high throughout New York State. A statewide ballot initiative, along with several high-stakes mayoral and county executive elections, moved NYSNA’s Political Action Team to action.
On Monday, dozens of nurses answered the call from the AFYA Foundation to pack up urgent medical supply kits for the medical personnel in Puerto Rico. We spent the day packing up supplies.
In New York City, there is a two-tier healthcare system. An important report shows that NYC’s Health+Hospitals/Mayorals (H+H) system provides the majority of under-financed medical care to the city’s uninsured, Medicaid, and Level One emergency trauma care patients. The public system is not adequately compensated for the care it provides—and that private hospitals avoid—such as mental healthcare. New York’s private hospitals make money at the public’s expense.
On June 8, 150 hospital support workers — members of the union ver.di — launched a strike against the billion-dollar German-based corporation Fresenius/CFM over lo
