"Management at the richest hospitals in New York City are threatening to discontinue or radically cut nurses' health benefits, the nursing group added. NewYork-Presbyterian reported a net income of $547m in 2024. Mount Sinai reported $114m, while Montefiore reported $288.62m, according to ProPublica's nonprofit tracker, which monitors the finances of nonprofit organisations, which these three hospitals are. Striking nurses claim hospital management has threatened to cut healthcare benefits."
"In 2021, New York state signed into law a requirement that hospitals establish committees at every facility to outline staffing plans by division, including a minimum one-to-two nurse-to-patient ratio in critical care units, as strains on the healthcare system became amplified during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. You can't divorce this from the experience of COVID in New York. COVID tested our healthcare system and tested nurses in particular."
Almost 15,000 nurses walked off the job across Mount Sinai, Montefiore and NewYork-Presbyterian in New York City, marking the city's largest nurses' strike. Elected leaders including Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined nurses as contract negotiations failed to make meaningful progress. Nurses identified safe staffing, healthcare benefits, and workplace violence protections as core issues and alleged management threatened to cut health benefits and roll back staffing standards. NewYork-Presbyterian reported $547m net income in 2024, Mount Sinai $114m, and Montefiore $288.62m, per ProPublica's tracker. New York law requires hospital staffing committees and a minimum 1:2 critical care ratio; independent verification of union claims was not available. Nurses previously struck in 2023 and cite COVID-19 as a factor exposing chronic understaffing.
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