NY Nurse January/February 2015

Long Island members meet

Twenty-two members from Long Island met at their first inter-regional for 2015 recently. Among the agenda items, was how to utilize POAs more effectively in contract campaigns. Bargaining is forthcoming at three Catholic Health Services system hospitals: St. Joseph Hospital...

Tracey Kavanaugh, RN and NYSNA Board Member, who works at Flushing Hospital, has a special appeal posted on NYSNA’s Facebook page:

OomphforKaty is a campaign dedicated to providing support for our dear friend, Katy, as she underwent her third double-lung transplant. Katy told a friend once, “...

For ten years Thea Sherlock, RN, has provided oncology care at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in West Park, NY. “The safety of our patients comes first,” she says.

At Vassar’s Med/Surg, all oncology patients are cared for – before, during and after chemotherapy. There are major reconstructions; some...

The application by Big Apple Dialysis Management, LLC, to the NYS Department of Health to purchase chronic dialysis patient services and equipment at four HHC hospitals has been stopped three times. Patients, nurses, doctors, public health experts, public health unions and community advocates have...

Public hearings critical to the future of special Medicaid funding in New York State — a total of $6.2 billion over five years — were held on February 17 in Albany. NYSNA was widely acknowledged to have played the central role in providing analysis and detail of the blueprint’s pros and cons.

DSRIP...

The 44th Annual Legislative Conference of the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators was convened on February 14 in Albany with more than 100 NYSNA members representing our members from throughout the state. “Ending healthcare disparities” was this year’s Conference theme...

For many residents of New York State, zip code says more about health status than anything else. Life expectancy in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood is eleven years less than in Manhattan’s Murray Hill, just a few miles north.

Hispanics, many of whom live in zip code-defined poverty, had the...

The 14 hospitals in bargaining in New York City continue to press demands. Patient safety is our top priority.

The multi-employer talks, involving four hospitals – Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York Presbyterian, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt and Mt. Sinai Hospital, all in Manhattan – continue...

Testifying in Albany in support of the New York Health Act, a bill before the New York State Legislature to implement a single payer system, I shared overview from the perspective of an RN on this essential proposal. Here are some of those remarks:

Nurses are uniquely situated on the front lines of...

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