NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital ‘Slammed With Almost $400,000 In Financial Remedies For Understaffing’ As 4,200 NYSNA-Represented Nurses Employed At The NYC Medical Facility ‘Continue Their Historic Strike, Which Is Now In Its Sixth Week’
(NEW YORK CITY) – New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA)-represented Registered Nurses employed at NewYork-Presbyterian who work in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital (CHONY) have won an arbitration award after tracking the unsafe staffing levels in their Unit from January 1st, 2023 to May 31st, 2024.
The Arbitrator found the Hospital violated the Nurse contract’s staffing provisions 614 times and awarded Nurses who worked understaffed $399,829.
NYSNA Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian are currently in their sixth week of a historic Nurse Strike and are continuing to demand the Hospital address safe staffing issues.
Nurses who care for some of the sickest infants in the State were concerned about the chronic understaffing on their Unit carefully tracked and documented the staffing levels over the course of a year and a half.
The Arbitrator reviewed their documentation and, following multiple days of hearing, found the Hospital violated the Nurses’ contracts and failed to hire and retain sufficient Nurses to safely staff the Hospital’s Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
The Arbitrator found the “record established a perceived pattern of violations.”
This finding is the third finding of make whole relief for Nurses.
Arbitrators have awarded NewYork-Presbyterian Nurses approximately $675,000 and 141 extra vacation days to remedy staffing violations on three different Units.
However, NewYork-Presbyterian has appealed every award so far, which means Nurses have yet to receive any financial compensation.
These cases are currently on appeal in Federal Court.
NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said NewYork-Presbyterian “is one of the richest Hospitals in the State. We know they can afford to safely staff their Hospitals, yet they choose not to. Nurses are out on the picket line because they refuse to compromise on safe patient care. Arbitrators and Judges have consistently ruled in Nurses’ favor, despite the Hospital making every attempt to denigrate Nurses publicly. We will continue to fight against NewYork-Presbyterian until they agree to a contract that patients and Nurses deserve.”
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