Overview
- Union and hospitals reached tentative agreements on artificial intelligence safeguards and some hospital‑specific terms, following an earlier deal to preserve health benefits.
- Roughly 15,000 nurses at Mount Sinai, Montefiore and NewYork‑Presbyterian remain off the job on Day 25, pressing for safe staffing standards and higher pay.
- Negotiations continue at the Javits Center, with NewYork‑Presbyterian asserting it delivered a comprehensive Feb. 2 proposal through mediators as the union disputes its adequacy.
- At least 15 people were arrested during a union ‘day of action’ after protesters blocked the entrance to the Greater New York Hospital Association in Midtown.
- Hospitals report keeping services open using agency and out‑of‑state clinicians under state waivers as contingency spending has climbed past $100 million.