Nurses at three city hospitals said they will launch a strike within weeks if the medical centers continue to ignore their demands to address staffing shortages that put patients at risk.
Nurses overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike affecting more than 10,000 registered nurses in New York City at three hospital systems: Mount Sinai Hospital, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center.
For months, nurses have warned about overcrowding that has forced medical staff to treat emergency room patients in hallways, where they have no privacy and face the risk of infection.
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