Nurses at New York Methodist Hospital rally for ‘safe staffing’
NYM: 'We are hiring at least 20 nurses a month'
Nurses at New York Methodist Hospital in Park Slope chanted and marched at a rally on Monday, to bring attention to what they called unsafe levels of staffing at the hospital.
“There were over 3,000 protests filed by nurses over the past two years,” said Irving Campbell, a registered nurse working at NYM for the past 12 years.
“We had an independent arbitrator rule in our favor in October that the hospital was not in compliance,” he said. “We met with the management several times, but they failed to come up with an agreement on numbers. Nurses are fed up. It’s about safety for patients.”
Campbell says NYM is dragging their feet on new hiring.