NY Nurse: June 2020

Since nurses from St. Elizabeth Medical Center lined the Parkway in Utica on National Nurses Day, calling for an end to staffing cuts, they have not let up on hospital administration.

That’s because patient safety has been jeopardized. When MVHS laid off approximately 40 nurses and furloughed many...

On June 7, more than 200 nurses and community supporters lined New Scotland Avenue in front of the hospital to demand that Albany Med invest in the Capital Region’s health and commit to a safe reopening of elective surgeries.

Nurses expressed concern about how Albany Med cut nurses’ hours at the...

The COVID crisis has laid bare the deep racial inequalities in the nation’s healthcare system, and the consequences of decades of disinvestment in New York’s safety net. Unfortunately, it’s taken months to get most states—and the Centers for Disease Control—to report COVID-19 statistics by race, so...

On March 23, as the coronavirus crisis was gaining momentum in New York, the state ordered hospitals to increase their capacity by at least fifty percent. Wealthy private hospitals started emptying out psychiatric units under the auspices of this effort. For these hospitals, it was a golden...

Nurses are traumatized. Whether we live in a region decimated by COVID-19, or live in fear of its deadly visit to our neighborhoods, we know that the organizations designed to protect us — government, regulatory agencies, and hospitals — failed miserably at this task and, inexplicably, seem not to...