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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 31, 2021 Contact: Carl Ginsburg | carl.ginsburg@nysna.org | 917.405.1060 Safe Staffing with enough nurses must be Top 2021 NYS Priority Nurses say: ‘We Could Have Saved More’ - More than 40,000 COVID-19 Deaths and Counting Hospitals and State must take action now by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 16, 2021 Contact: Kristi Barnes | kristi.barnes@nysna.org | 646.853.4489 Thousands Could Have Been Saved with Safe Staffing Nurses: ‘No More Excuses’ for Being Understaffed and Underprepared New York - Nurses at NY Presbyterian and Mount Sinai in Manhattan are demanding

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 4, 2021 Contact: Carl Ginsburg | carlginsburg@nysna.org | 917.405.1060 SUBSTANTIAL COST SAVINGS ALSO WOULD BE ACHIEVED Read the Report Here NEW YORK – A major new study of New York hospital safe staffing nurse-to-patient ratios was announced this week by researchers at

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 1, 2021 Contact: Carl Ginsburg | carl.ginsburg@nysna.org | 917-405-1060 THE BILL HEADS TO THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE NEXT This comes on the heels of more than 26,000 Complaints of Understaffing signed by nearly 98,000 nurses during the last two years New York – The New

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 26, 2021 Contact: Carl Ginsburg | carl.ginsburg@nysna.org | 917-405-1060 Dr. Aiken’s Two-Year Research on NYS Hospitals Finds that More than 4,370 Deaths Would Have Been Avoided among Elderly Medicare Patients with Safer Staffing; Says Safer Staffing Would Have Saved

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 24, 2021 Contact: Carl Ginsburg | carl.ginsburg@nysna.org | 917-405-1060 OFFICIAL NUMBER: 26,219 COMPLAINTS SIGNED BY 97,715 NURSES Complaints are called ‘Protests of Assignment’ and are filed with Hospital Management This is further proof that Albany must pass Safe