Overview
- The walkout, now in its sixth day, involves nearly 15,000 nurses at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian and is the largest nurses’ strike in New York City history.
- An anonymous union official says at least three patients died at Mount Sinai since Monday, including two newborns during delivery and a 24-year-old intensive care patient.
- A retired Mount Sinai nurse practitioner described an account that the 24-year-old patient pulled out a life‑support tube after inadequate restraint and sedation.
- Union representatives report more “code blue” emergencies and say temporary replacement nurses are overstretched and unfamiliar with specialized units.
- Hospital representatives declined to comment on the death claims as NYSNA presses for enforceable staffing ratios, higher pay, and protection of health benefits.