More than 7,000 nurses walked off the job and onto picket lines leaving the two medical giants canceling procedures and scrambling to provide services.
Dr. Noa Nessim, a family medicine physician in the third year of her residency at Montefiore’s Family Health Center, told THE CITY on Monday afternoon that licensed practical nurses from her clinic had been sent to fill in for those striking at Montefiore Hospital, impeding the center’s ability to provide patient care.
While other nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association agreed to 19.1% pay raises over three years last week ahead of Monday morning’s strike deadline, those striking at Montefiore and Sinai say they’re being shortchanged them, not only on pay, but on working conditions in ways that also endangered patients.
At Montefiore Medical Center, which includes the city’s busiest emergency departments, all elective surgeries have been postponed and appointments at all ambulatory facilities will be postponed, according to the medical center’s website. Elizabeth Dowling Steinke, a spokesperson for Mt. Sinai, said she could not confirm that nurses from staffing agencies had been brought in, but did confirm that traveling nurses were attending to patients.
“Some patients need to be repositioned, turned and repositioned every two hours but we don’t get that. We don’t get time to do that,” said 26-year-old nurse Nana M., who works at Weiler Hospital in Morris Park and asked to be identified only by her first name and last initial. She often treats patients in critical care while working in telemetry, where she said nurses were supposed to care for no more than four patients, but where she routinely had six.
“They’re trying to use public empathy for the patients against us,” Aubryan Fenol, a registered nurse who’s worked at Sinai for 15 years, told THE CITY. “We’re asking them to give us a better contract.
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