Nurses at two New York City hospitals are on strike after last-minute negotiations failed.
Mayor Eric Adams says the city has a situation room standing ready and advised people to only call 911 if they truly need emergency care.
NYSNA President Nancy Hagans says these agreements aren't up to the nurses. They are up to the bosses. "Mount Sinai hospital alone has over 500 nursing vacancies as of this week, and the neonatal ICU nurses are regularly forced to take on three sick babies to care for when the standard is one to one or one to," Hagans added.
"When they don't have access to primary care, they come into our emergency rooms which causes the overcrowding," Montefiore Nurse Practitioner Johnira Delone-Florian said. "And that space can be used for those patients to be taken out of the hallways and put into a bed, like everyone else."
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