(NEW YORK CITY) – New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) Members throughout the NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) Health System were alarmed to hear in a video townhall about a sweeping 2% staffing cut across the Hospital System.

Steve Corwin, President and CEO, and Brian Donley, VP and COO, made the announcement on the same day the news broke about the hospital’s $750 million settlement for survivors of Dr. Hadden's sexual abuse. 

Corwin stated: "This is one of the strongest institutions in the country, from the standpoint of care and the standpoint of its own finances. But nevertheless, we need to take these actions."  

NYP is New York City’s wealthiest Hospital System and one of the country’s most financially stable.

Given their current economic position, NYSNA is demanding to see evidence the hospital needs to make sweeping job cuts.

The announced 2% across the board cuts mean more than 1,000 Health Care Workers will lose their jobs.  

According to their Third Quarter 2024 financial report, NYP had a healthy profit margin- 4.5%.

CEO Corwin alone made more than $14.6 million in salary, benefits and perks in 2023.

Over 30 of NYP’s top-paid executives made more than $1 million a year in salary, benefits, and perks in 2023.

According to their own financial statement, as of 2024, NYP had one of the lower shares of revenue from Medicaid patients – approximately 14.5% of its revenue came from Medicaid.  

NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said: “It is outrageous and deeply offensive NewYork-Presbyterian is exploiting the real threat that impending federal Medicaid cuts pose to New York’s public, safety-net and rural hospitals, to cut jobs at the City’s wealthiest hospital. New York’s Non-Profit Hospitals should be defending care for all New Yorkers in the face of Federal threats to funding, not focused on how to deliver even more profits to their trustees at the expense of our communities.”

NYSNA-represented Nurses are demanding to see the financial reports and projections the hospital is using to justify cutting jobs and care at a time when New York’s Non-Profit Health Care providers should be protecting quality care for patients.

The Nurses’ primary concern is quality patient care.

Health Care Worker cuts mean less health care for patients.

After pressing for details in writing, NYSNA learned 70 Nurses will be laid off at NYP-Columbia, NYP-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and NYP-Hudson Valley Hospital.

These hospitals already struggle with hiring and retaining enough Nurses for safe staffing.

These cuts will only further threaten patient care, NYNSA added.

NYSNA Director at Large Aretha Morgan said: “NYP’s job cuts put the children I care for at the Children’s Hospital at risk - and that is unacceptable. These irresponsible and unnecessary cuts to the Staff who deliver care will cause harm in the communities we serve.”  

NYSNA Nurses are demanding a reversal of cuts to Front-Line Staff and guaranteed placement of displaced Nurses in the NYP Hospital System.

Nurses are demanding transparency and a written commitment NYP will not cut the essential health care services patients need and NYSNA Members are prepared to defend quality care for our patients, Union Officials said.

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