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Wall Street's Plan to Take Over Our Healthcare

November 12, 2013

Wall Street and private equity firms plan to take over healthcare through a series of tactics including changing the regulatory structure, promoting a private insurance model and lobbying for the introduction of for-profit healthcare facilities to enter the New York market.

What You Can Do To Help Victims of Typhoon Haiyan

November 12, 2013

On November 8, Typhoon Haiyan (called Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines), one of the most powerful typhoons on record, ripped through the Philippines, leaving a path of destruction in its wake...

Video: Westchester Patient Care in Danger

November 08, 2013

Execs at Westchester Medical Center have laid off and privatized more than 140 skilled registered nurses and hundreds of other caregivers.

NYSNA nurses talk about what we are doing to save patient care...

Video: Building a movement

November 08, 2013

What an incredible year for NYSNA: we built a movement of nurses and patients to keep hospitals open for care, defend our public hospital system, organize new nurses, and fight for healthcare for all.

St. Joe's RNs rally for Safe Staffing!

November 07, 2013

A little rain couldn't stop us from rallying for safe staffing!

More than 100 St. Joe's RNs, Yonkers City Council members, community supporters, and NYSNA RNs took the streets of Yonkers to rally for...

Watch the HHC documentary

November 06, 2013

A new documentary looks at 300 years of patient care at HHC.

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Lower Staffing Ratios, Fewer Readmissions

November 01, 2013

Reducing hospital re-admissions is one of the chief cost-cutting tactics of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Hospitals that have excessive 30-day readmissions for Medicare patients admitted for heart...