{"id":120,"date":"2023-04-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=120"},"modified":"2023-05-18T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T19:23:08","slug":"am-new-york-public-hospital-nurses-rally-outside-harlem-hospital-and-demands-pay-equity-and-more-staffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/04\/06\/am-new-york-public-hospital-nurses-rally-outside-harlem-hospital-and-demands-pay-equity-and-more-staffing\/","title":{"rendered":"AM New York: Public hospital nurses rally outside Harlem Hospital and demands pay equity and more staffing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/new-york\/public-hospital-nurses-rally-outside-of-harlem-hospital-and-demand-pay-equity-and-more-staffing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"amny.com\/new-york\/public-hospital-nurses-rally-outside-of-harlem-hospital-and-demand-pay-equity-and-more-staffing\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Sarah Belle Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public hospital nurses rallied outside of Harlem Hospital on Tuesday demanding higher pay, on par with private-sector nurses, and better staffing levels across New York City\u2019s municipal hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nurses, who were joined by elected officials and community allies, shared their experiences at the annual Board of Directors meeting for New York City\u2019s Health+Hospitals System, the country\u2019s largest public healthcare system<strong>. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rally, held prior to the board meeting, was organized by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), the state\u2019s largest union representing 42,000 registered nurses, and took place three months after private-sector nurses went on strike. Around 9,000 nurses are currently involved in the union\u2019s contract negotiations, according to NYSNA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NYSNA president Nancy Hagans, a critical care nurse at&nbsp;Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, said in a statement that 42 nurses testified for approximately five hours about the crisis of understaffing and high turnover at a separate union contract bargaining session with the city on Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nurses spoke out during the board meeting about caring for Black and brown patients and the frustration they experience when there aren\u2019t enough nurses at their bedsides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNurses are calling for New York City to do the right thing and work with us to recruit and retain enough nurses,\u201d Hagans said. \u201cThat starts with pay equity for public-sector nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hagans said in a statement that nurses testified about being unable to provide emotional support to parents with sick children, working 12-hour shifts with no breaks, to there not being enough&nbsp;nurses&nbsp;to safely staff a neonatal intensive care unit or emergency room. NYC\u2019s&nbsp;public&nbsp;health facilities predominantly serve Black, Hispanic, and immigrants, and are themselves staffed by nurses from those demographics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/new-york\/public-hospital-nurses-rally-outside-of-harlem-hospital-and-demand-pay-equity-and-more-staffing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"amny.com\/new-york\/public-hospital-nurses-rally-outside-of-harlem-hospital-and-demand-pay-equity-and-more-staffing\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Sarah Belle Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Public hospital nurses rallied outside of Harlem Hospital on Tuesday demanding higher pay, on par with private-sector nurses, and better staffing levels across New York City\u2019s municipal hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The nurses, who were joined by elected officials and community allies, shared their experiences at the annual Board of Directors meeting for New York City\u2019s Health+Hospitals System, the country\u2019s largest public healthcare system<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/04\/06\/am-new-york-public-hospital-nurses-rally-outside-harlem-hospital-and-demands-pay-equity-and-more-staffing\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}