Keep Hospitals and Essential Services Open for Care Over the summer, NYSNA also fought to keep hospitals open for care and protect essential services. We shifted our campaign against Montefiore’s proposed closure of Mount Vernon Hospital in the heart of Black Westchester into high gear, and have once again succeeded in keeping the hospital open for care.
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2020 a year like no other
In June, Montefiore New Rochelle closed its Maternal and Child Health units in order to redeploy nurses to care for COVID patients. This left families without essential care, and NYSNA nurses and elected officials fought back and won a reopening of these services for the community
When hospital systems used COVID as an excuse to shutter essential—but less profitable—inpatient mental health services, NYSNA members were there to speak out for our patients and communities. In June, we rallied at New York-Presbyterian in Brooklyn and at NYP’s Allen Pavillion in Manhattan.
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