NYSNA Statement in Response to Active Shooter Incident at Mount Sinai Hospital
For Immediate Release: Friday, Nov. 14, 2025
Contact: Andrea Penman-Lomeli | press@nysna.org | 347-559-3169
Kristi Barnes | press@nysna.org | 646-853-4489
NYSNA Statement in Response to Active Shooter Incident at Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, N.Y. - Yesterday afternoon, Mount Sinai nurses gathered at the hospital to speak out about the urgent need for a fair contract that protects patient care and the nurses who deliver it. Nurses have been meeting for contract negotiations with Mount Sinai administrators for two months, including about workplace safety and violence prevention, and administrators have not put forward a single proposal.
Yesterday evening, there was an active shooter in and near the main entrance of the Mount Sinai emergency department who threaten to shoot up the hospital. Nurses later did their best to save this man’s life when he came to the hospital as a trauma patient.
Nurses are calling on hospital administrators to answer their urgent contract proposals and take immediate action to protect nurses and better secure our hospital entrances. Administrators have ignored nurses’ calls for functional weapons detection systems at every hospital entrance.
Nurses and patients deserve a hospital that is a place of safety, healing and quality care. Our concerns are not theoretical — nurses are on the frontlines, putting our health and safety at risk every day. We are advocating for the safety of all patients and visitors in our hospital, as well. There are real consequences to Mount Sinai’s inaction.
NYSNA nurses demand an immediate increase in security at the hospital. We demand management answers our proposals on protecting nurses from workplace violence immediately, without further delay.
NYSNA also urges Gov. Hochul to sign the full package of workplace violence bills that legislators passed earlier this year. Nurse and patient safety cannot wait.
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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.