Safe Staffing

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Safe, quality care depends on enough nurses and frontline caregivers to do the job. That’s why NYSNA fights for safe staffing on every unit, in every healthcare facility in the state. By uniting and organizing together, NYSNA nurses have won serious improvements to staffing through our contracts and the law. Safe staffing saves lives.

Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Bronx Win Groundbreaking Safe Staffing

February 28, 2023 at 3:34 pm

The three-day strike of more than 7,000 nurses at two NYC hospitals—Mount Sinai and Montefiore—in January 2023 ended with groundbreaking agreements on safe staffing.

NYC Nurses Strike and Win for Fair Contracts

January 24, 2023 at 5:35 am

01-24 Update!

After a successful three-day strike, nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore have won and ratified historic contracts that include enforceable nurse-to-patient staffing ratios w

Implementing the Hospital Staffing Committees Law

March 29, 2022 at 3:39 pm

NYSNA nurses won a major victory in the battle for safe staffing when the New York State legislature passed the Hospital Staffing Committees law last summer. In January 2022, the new law went into effect. For the first time, there is a process for setting and enforcing staffing standards at every hospital in New York State.