Introduction: A Year like No other

NYSNA members swept into 2020 following a string of victories, but in the first two months of the year we had little inkling of just how much our world would be transformed.

2020

a Year like no oTher

NYSNA members swept into 2020 on the heels of a successful one-day strike at Shore Memorial Hospital in New Jersey and a breakthrough contract at New York City Health + Hospitals that established staffing ratios across the system.

NYSNA also took a big organizational step forward, with one of our own, pat Kane, a 30-year NYSNA member from Staten Island university Hospital, taking the reins as executive Director.

of course, 2020 also began with a host of challenges, including the fight to save and transform Mount Vernon Hospital from Montefiore’s planned closure and the push to restore billions in proposed Medicaid cuts.

But in the first two months of the year, we had little inkling of just how much our world would be transformed by the CoVID-19 pandemic and our country’s long overdue racial reckoning, or just how fitting it was that 2020 was designated as the international year of the nurse and the midwife.

Collectively, this past year has been one of the most challenging and painful times in our professional careers. But throughout it all NYSNA members have demonstrated extraordinary courage and compassion.

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Your steadfast commitment helped save over 147,000 New Yorkers from CoVID-19, and together, we’ve made NYSNA an indispensable voice defending the public’s health.

the arrival of a CoVID-19 vaccine in the closing weeks of December was a welcome conclusion to an unprecedented year.

But no matter what 2021 holds, we know NYSNA members will be ready to protect our patients and fight for the healthcare New Yorkers deserve.