Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I wish to congratulate the nurses of Mount Sinai and Monetfiore Medical Center who, after 3 days on strike, reached a tentative agreement for safe staffing ratios this morning. Our hospitals are facing extreme nursing shortages, and it is affecting patient care. Montefiore Medical Center, which is in my district, has had 760 vacancies. But thanks to the tentative agreement and the courage and efforts of our nurses on the picket line, hospital management is now committing to an aggressive hiring plan and to immediately implement staffing ratios, including an increase of over 170 nursing positions and a 19.1 percent wage increase and additional benefits to help with retention. I thank so much the New York State Nurses Association, NYSNA, for their work. It is our privilege to stand in solidarity with them. ____________________”