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Yesterday, May 20 th , nearly 200 NYSNA nurses went to Albany to let our elected representatives know: safe staffing saves lives. We joined a coalition that included 1199SEIU, PEF, NYSUT Healthcare Professionals, and CWA to lobby for Bill A6571, the “Safe …

 Myrna Balbuena, RN Myrna Balbuena, a NYSNA RN at Shore Medical Center, won The Press of Atlantic City’s “Salute to Nurses” contest earlier this month. Called “a modern day Florence Nightingale,” and “the epitome of nursing,” by her co-worker, Dorothy …

In a victory for New York patients, HHC has announced that they are indefinitely postponing the sale of dialysis services at four NYC public hospitals.    NYSNA members, community leaders, and dialysis patients spoke out at hearings, circulated petitions, …

Jaqueline (Jacqui) Gilbert, President of NYSNA's Congress of Bargaining Unit Leaders, member of NYSNA’s HHC bargaining team, and RN at Harlem Hospital, will be honored at the 2014 Caribbean American Health Awards on June 25 for her extraordinary …

“Safe staffing through ratios saves lives and makes financial sense,” says NYSNA Executive Director Jill Furillo, RN, in the “Expert Opinion” section of the latest City & State magazine. “This law is rooted in science and experience.” When it comes to …

If “The Wizard of Oz’s” Tin Man and Lion are in search of heart and courage, they need only look to the RNs of Nathan Littauer Hospital to find them. The hospital held its annual foundation gala on Friday, May 30, and five enthusiastic members from the …

A little rain didn’t stop NYSNA RNs from turning out to talk to our Oneonta community about Safe Staffing. Our message: we're spread too thin at A.O. Fox Hospital. We're calling on hospital management to commit in writing to a plan to improve staffing and …

Chanting “We Care for New York,” hundreds of NYSNA nurses and 1199SEIU caregivers picketed for respect at Brooklyn’s Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center and East Harlem’s Terence Cardinal Cooke long-term care facility on Wednesday. More than 300 nurses and …

Upstate NYSNA RNs packed the house with more than 83 RNs for our Capital District Inter-regional Meeting on Thursday, June 12. Members traveled from as far as Central New York to Mallozzi’s in Schenectady, to discuss our movement to build an even stronger …

New York State lawmakers just ended their legislative session. And for the second year in a row, State Senate Health chair Kemp Hannon, the Republican/IDC Senate leadership, and a few Assembly members blocked the passage of the Safe Staffing for Quality …