NYSNA Members from North Country Hospitals Hold Town Hall on Access to Care Crisis
**MEDIA ADVISORY FOR DEC. 10 AT 6 P.M.**
Contact: Andrea Penman-Lomeli | press@nysna.org | 347-559-3169
Kristi Barnes | press@nysna.org | 646-853-4489
NYSNA MEMBERS FROM NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITALS HOLD TOWN HALL ON ACCESS TO CARE CRISIS
NYSNA Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Discuss How Healthcare Cuts Negatively Impact Patient Care and What Hospitals Can Do to Protect Patients
N.Y. - On Wed. Dec. 10, New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) nurses and healthcare professionals from North Country hospitals, including Adirondack Medical Center, Carthage Area Medical Center, Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, Samaritan Medical Center, UVM-Alice Hyde Medical Center, UVM-Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, and UVM-Elizabethtown Community Hospital will gather to discuss what hospitals can do to protect access to healthcare and preserve essential services in a virtual Zoom town hall. NYSNA members are all bargaining for fair contracts that protect safe patient care. They will discuss the negative trends in healthcare that affect frontline staff, patients, and North Country communities, and how elected officials, allies, and hospitals can preserve access to quality care.
WHAT: North Country Access to Care Virtual Town Hall
WHO: NYSNA healthcare professionals and community allies
WHEN: Dec. 10 at 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Zoom, RVSP Here: https://nysna.tfaforms.net/5110937
Nurses and healthcare professionals across the North Country are united to protect safe patient care in the face of impending Medicaid cuts. Over the past several years, frontline staff have watched as North Country hospitals consolidate around regional hospital systems and cut essential healthcare services. NYSNA will preview new research from a forthcoming whitepaper that outlines how cuts to pediatric, maternal and trauma services at North Country hospitals in the last decade have negatively impacted patient care. At a critical moment in healthcare across the country, North Country nurses and healthcare professionals are united around demanding hospitals do their part to protect access to care for residents across the region.
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The New York State Nurses Association represents more than 42,000 members in New York State. We are New York’s largest union and professional association for registered nurses. NYSNA is an affiliate of National Nurses United, AFL-CIO, the country's largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses, with more than 225,000 members nationwide.