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Nurses Say Chronic Staff Shortages Costing Lives in State's Hospitals

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 2/26/21

Nurses have filed 26,219 complaints about understaffing in hospitals across the state in 2019 and 2020, the New York State Nurses Association reported Feb. 24.

The protests of assignment—formal complaints made to hospital management—drew the signatures of more than 97,000 nurses, according to the union.

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