For Immediate Release: June 19, 2015 Not Enough Nurses and Caregivers for Safe Patient Care at Nathan Littauer Hospital and Ellis Medicine CAPITAL REGION, NY – As calls to increase numbers of registered nurses at Capital Region area hospitals grow louder -- by the public, elected officials, public
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 18, 2015 With the assistance of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, a tentative agreement was reached today between the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), the union that represents 37,000 nurses statewide, and the NYC Hospital Alliance, which
Nursing was the subject of a lengthy and engaging segment on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on April 30. With his guest, author Alexandra Robbins, Lehrer discussed safe staffing ratios, workplace...
After months of negotiations, thousands of NYC’s registered nurses from 14 citywide hospitals took their fight for patient care and safe staffing levels to the community on Thursday with a day-long...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 16, 2015 (NEW YORK CITY) — After months of negotiations, thousands of NYC’s registered nurses from 14 citywide hospitals took their fight for patient care and safe staffing levels to the community on Thursday with a day-long citywide informational picket. Thousands of
Staffing, and a commitment to a statewide strategy to improve patient care, dominated the March 12 Capital Region Inter-regional Meeting in Glenville. Nurses from across the Capital Region gathered to...
NYSNA members welcomed the Lunar New Year by marching in one of the city’s most festive and colorful parades. The parade, which winds down the streets of Manhattan’s Chinatown, draws hundreds of...