There was a time, a New York State Nurses Association official said, when the old Roosevelt Hospital—now Mount Sinai West—"was renowned as a birthing center."
But when Kiera Downes-Vogel, a Registered Nurse working in Mount Sinai West's labor-and-delivery unit, spoke at a union rally Dec. 1 that stretched along 10th Ave. down to the hospital's corner at West 58th St., she spoke of staff shortages that were requiring her and her colleagues to do more than should be reasonably expected.
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