Tell Albany Med CEO Dr. McKenna:
Stop hiding the truth! Put patient safety first!

The NYS Deptartment of Health has cited Albany Med for at least 50 staffing violations, but they are refusing to follow the law and share the report with frontline nurses. They are also hiding the truth about the outrageous amount of money they spend on temporary travel nurses—without fixing the staffing crisis. Hospital administrators are also retaliating against union nurses who advocate for safe patient care.

Tell Dr. McKenna and the Albany Med administration to stop hiding the truth about the safe staffing crisis, stop breaking the law, and listen to your nurses and settle a fair contract that respects nurses and patients!

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What are nurses and patients saying?

“Safe staffing ratios are an issue that the hospital and NYSNA nurses just cannot agree on. Well, management agrees to our safe staffing numbers, they just don’t agree to making those numbers a reality! While we insist that a safe hospital requires enough nurses to provide quality care, management continues to value their bottom line over patient safety.” - Tonia Bazel, RN

"We're in the midst of a staffing crisis at Albany Med [...] Safe staffing in the ED means we can have shorter wait times in the waiting room, patients seen and cared for by competent staff, and not using on staff member to take care of critically ill patients. With current staffing levels we have to close areas of the ED because we can't staff them. That means more patients having care in hallways, in emergency room stretchers, not hospital beds. It means poorer outcomes, because [of] a higher number of patients for a lower number of nurses." - Hannah Palmer, RN

I waited 12 hours in the ER after seeing a doctor in triage who said I needed assistance urgently for arrhythmia. 12 hours later, I converted on my own in the waiting room. [I was] never checked on or examined past the initial encounter. I was told by nursing staff that they were horribly understaffed—[by] 3 or 4 nurses. The nursing staff deserves better. My community deserves better. I deserved actual care.

My cardiologist is affiliated with AMC and their staffing makes me feel alienated and deeply limited in regard to my care. Nurses can only do so much with limited resources and it is not their fault. I worry that this situation will only become more dire for the community in the future as administrators have failed to meet their obligations.” - Danielle