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MEDIA ADVISORY For Monday, December 2, 2013 Contacts: Jesse Myerson, 347.688.0241, jesse.myerson@nysna.org Nyack RNs Rally for Safe Staffing: Call on Management to Provide Conditions for High Quality Patient Care NYACK, NY— NYSNA RNs at Nyack Hospital are picketing to call on management to negotiate

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2013 CONTACT: Jesse Myerson, Jesse.Myerson@nysna.org, 347.688.0241 NURSES TO PICKET FOR SAFE PATIENT CARE AT NYACK HOSPITAL Nyack – Nurses at Nyack Hospital are being forced to take on 9, 10, or more patients at a time - that's not safe for our patients. At Noon on

CONTACT:Eliza Bates, NYSNA, (917) 565-2976, eliza.bates@nysna.org Brooklyn, November 27, 2013 - LICH patients are celebrating Thanksgiving by going to the hospital – this time to share their thanks in the form of sweets and merriment with LICH staff working on the holiday. Patients have also been

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Jesse Myerson, 347.688.0241, jesse.myerson@nysna.org Eliza Bates, 917.565.2976, eliza.bates@nysna.org Brooklyn RNs Stand Up for Behavioral Health Patients: Patients Shouldn’t Have to Suffer From this Game of “Musical Chairs” BROOKLYN—NYSNA nurses at Kings County

MEDIA ADVISORY Monday, November 25, 2013 Contacts: Bernadette Ellorin, 347.244.8953, bernadette.ellorin@nysna.org Jesse Myerson, 347.688.0241, jesse.myerson@nysna.org Elmhurst RNs Rally for Patient Care in Queens QUEENS, NY— NYSNA nurses at Elmhurst Hospital are holding a rally to call on Elmhurst

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 18, 2013 CONTACT: Jesse Myerson, Jesse.Myerson@nysna.org, 347.688.0241 NURSES, COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO “JAM FOR JUSTICE,” DEMANDING HHC RESTORE PERINATAL SERVICES UNITS IMMEDIATELY The Bronx – Bowing to public pressure HHC has agreed to restore closed perinatal units to