Under the new contract, Mount Sinai has committed to maintaining set nurse-to-patient ratios in all inpatient units across the hospital — not just intensive care settings.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital have voted to finalize the deal that ended their three-day strike last week. It was approved Wednesday by 98% of members of the New York State Nurses Association at the hospital.
“The three-year contract, which can now go into effect, puts patients first,” David Reich, the president of Mount Sinai Hospital, said in a letter to staff announcing the results on Thursday morning. Ahead of the strike, there were also hundreds of open nursing positions at Mount Sinai, including more than 600 at the main campus in East Harlem as of mid-December, according to a list of the vacancies shared with Gothamist.
This trend has exacerbated staffing challenges and ratcheted up labor costs for hospitals, according to a recentfrom the Healthcare Association of New York State. In recent months, Mount Sinai has sought to address understaffing on some of its units by relying on these contract workers, Cartwright told Gothamist prior to the strike.
The hospital had previously submitted a staffing plan to state regulators, in compliance with a new law that took effect last year. That submission included the overall number of nurses that should be working on a given unit depending on how many patients were present. But this agreement puts in concrete terms the number of patients each nurse should handle.
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