NYSNA nurses and healthcare professionals won some important victories as the state legislative session ended late last week! Thanks to NYSNA member advocacy and action, the state legislature passed...
After weeks of advocacy and action, we have a final state budget for FY2022-2023 that adds $4 billion to the original Executive Proposal, raising total state spending from $216 billion to $220 billion...
Negotiations for the final state FY23 budget are now in full swing. The state senate and the state assembly have released their own “one house” budget proposals and the governor and legislature are in...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 12, 2021 Contact: Carl Ginsburg, carl.ginsburg@nysna.org, 917-405-1060 NYSNA Nurses Celebrate Nurse Practitioner Week; Urge Policymakers to Make the Nurse Modernization Act Permanent New York – During Nurse Practitioner Week, NYSNA healthcare workers urged policymakers to
NYSNA’s Director of Public Policy Leon Bell recently testified before the New York State Assembly’s Standing Committee on Health. He spoke on behalf of NYSNA’s 40,000 registered nurses and the...
Days after a group of legislators toured Rikers Island and called conditions there inhumane, and after NYSNA member Alicia Butler testified before New York City Council, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the L...
We did it! After a long, hard-fought struggle, members and healthcare workers succeeded in getting landmark hospital and nursing home staffing legislation passed into state law.