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Nurses: 2-Day Montefiore Strikes About Patient Safety, Not Control

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 12/4/20

The day before 2,200 nurses at two facilities in New Rochelle and Albany run by Montefiore Health System launched a two-day walkout Dec. 1, hospital spokesman Marcos Crespo issued a statement charging that the New York State Nurses Association was "striking because they want the power to dictate staffing assignments and hand out plum positions to their friends."

He continued, "Montefiore believes the decisions on how to treat patients and make these assignments rests not with any one group alone, but with the entire team caring for the patient."

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