Health Law News
Date Posted: March 9, 2024
NY Nurses win $127,000 in arbitration against Mount Sinai Hospital for ongoing understaffing of its NICU. The issue presented was the hospital's failure to meet contractual staffing requirements that had been agreed to by the nurses and administration after the nurses' strike in January.
Mount Sinai Hospital routinely understaffed it's nurses from January to mid-April, 2023, frequently understaffing the ICU by as many as six nurses. The understaffing left about two dozen nurses working at once in a unit overflowing with an average of 52 patients daily.
This arbitration case was the first time a New York City hospital has been held financially liable for violating the contractual staffing ratios won by the New York State Nurses Association after a three-day strike earlier this year.
See the full article at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/17/mount-sinai-nurse-strike-new-york-00097199. If you have had issues at your workplace about persistent understaffing for nurses at your hospital, please contact Marlene Garvis to see if we can help.
Minnesota Nurse Attorney
With a distinguished legal career spanning over 35 years, Marlene Garvis has been involved in nearly all aspects of health care, including being the Chair of the Health Law Practice Group at a Twin Cities law firm, a past President of the Hennepin County Bar Foundation, past President of Minnesota Women Lawyers and a Founding Fellow of the Hennepin County Bar Foundation.
Marlene has been a frequent speaker on health law, health care, nurse licensing and regulatory matters, as well as employment issues for nurses. She is an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline Law School in St. Paul, has been an adjunct faculty member of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and continues to speak to nursing students at St. Catherine University.
Marlene has represented clients in litigation, consultation and administrative proceedings for health care professional licensure, employment litigation, discipline and regulatory proceedings and nurse licensure hearings. To see Marlene's full professional bio, please visit https://www.marlenegarvis.com/marlene-garvis.php.
Marlene is a member of The American Association of Nurse Lawyers, specializing in nurse licensure hearings in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa as well as other legal issues in health care industry.