New York
Act Daily News
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New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital is constant to maneuver infants out of intensive care models to different space hospitals, is diverting ambulances to different amenities and suspending elective surgical procedures and coronary heart surgical procedures forward of a deliberate nursing strike Monday.
In a press release late Saturday, the hospital mentioned it has been negotiating “in good faith” with the nursing union, the New York State Nurses Association, on a brand new contract. Mount Sinai has agreed to satisfy with NYSNA nurses after strolling out on a bargaining session Thursday, the union mentioned Sunday.
A Mount Sinai spokesperson instructed Act Daily News on Saturday the hospital system is actively bargaining with the Mount Sinai Morningside and West campuses underneath separate union agreements.
But if agreements aren’t reached at a number of New York City space hospitals, about 8,700 nurses will strike on Monday morning.
The hospital mentioned Sunday its present wage provide “is identical” to ratified agreements at NewYork-Presbyterian and Maimonides – and would improve a Mount Sinai nurse’s base wage by 19.1 p.c over three years.
“But NYSNA’s inconsistent bargaining, unwillingness to accept this offer, and insistence on moving forward with a strike has left us no choice but to take significant actions to care for our patients,” the hospital assertion mentioned.
Seven neonatal intensive care unit infants had been safely transferred Saturday to companion hospitals in New York City, a hospital spokesperson instructed Act Daily News on Sunday. Another six shall be transferred Sunday from the NICUs at Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai West, the spokesperson mentioned.
“In addition, we have transferred close to 100 patients from the affected hospitals – The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside – to unaffected hospitals within the Mount Sinai system and partner hospitals in NYC and we continue to safely discharge patients who were schedule to go home.” All elective surgical procedures have been postponed, the spokesperson mentioned.
The NYSNA hit again Saturday at feedback from Mount Sinai, which mentioned Friday it was transferring infants in its neonatal intensive care models to different space hospitals due to the strike discover, including the hospital was dismayed by the union’s “reckless” actions.
“As a labor and delivery nurse who helps mothers to bring babies into this world, I find it outrageous that Mount Sinai would compromise care for our NICU babies in any way. We already have NICU nurses caring for twice as many sick babies as they should,” Matt Allen, the union’s regional director, mentioned.
“It’s unconscionable that Mount Sinai refuses to address unsafe staffing in our NICU and other units of the hospital but is now stirring fears about our NICU babies in contract negotiations,” he added.
More than 8,700 nurses are ready to go on strike Monday at 6 a.m. ET if tentative contract agreements will not be reached at a number of New York City hospitals, NYSNA President Nancy Hagans mentioned throughout a digital news convention Saturday morning.
That’s a drop from the unique estimate of 9,500, after tentative agreements had been reached late Friday and Saturday morning with different amenities.
In a press release Saturday, the NYSNA mentioned nurses at BronxCare and The Brooklyn Hospital Center reached tentative agreements that can enhance secure staffing ranges and enforcement, improve wages by 7%, 6%, and 5% yearly throughout their three-year contract, and retain their healthcare advantages.
Negotiations are persevering with at Montefiore Bronx and the Mount Sinai Morningside and West campuses forward of Monday’s deliberate strike, Hagans mentioned.
On Saturday, nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian introduced they’d agreed to ratify their deal, however it was an in depth vote – 57% nurses voted sure and 43% had been in opposition to.
“Voting on whether to ratify a contract is a key component of union democracy. Just like in any democracy, there is rarely 100 percent consensus,” Hagans mentioned in a press release.
To date, nurses at 5 New York City hospitals who had been slated to strike on Monday have now reached tentative agreements or contracts.