Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, president of the 40,000 member New York State Nurses Association and an emergency room nurse at Montefiore Medical Center, speak during an "urgent community speak out." | AP Photo The New York State Nurses Association filed suits against the state health department and two hospitals Monday, alleging that the entities failed in their…
The New York state nurses union filed lawsuits against the state and two hospitals Monday over what it says are unsafe working conditions and a lack of protective equipment.The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) sued the New York Department of Health and two hospitals, Montefiore Medical Center and Westchester Medical Center, claiming they put nurses’s health…
In a lawsuit filed Monday by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), the organization claims that the state's hospitals are turning into a "petri dish" as sick nurses are told to return back to work too soon, as they continue to fight on the front lines of the novel coronavirus pandemic.The claim comes amid…
Home / World News / New York nurses sue state, 2 hospitals over ‘inadequate’ coronavirus protection The New York State Nurses Association sued the state and two hospitals on Monday to force them to provide safety equipment and adopt measures to prevent COVID-19 from spreading among its members, highlighting the growing disputes over workplace safety…
A nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said she was sent home after refusing to wear a surgical mask instead of a protective respirator to treat COVID-19 patients — and that she was denied a coronavirus test even after she began displaying symptoms.A nurse at a hospital in Kentucky said she was reprimanded…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…