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Ellis is not investing in nurses; it wants to staff fewer nurses throughout the hospital.
Ellis invests in hospital executives, not patient care.
Ellis is not investing in our patients, our nurses, or our community.
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Understaffing at Ellis Medicine is chronic and pervasive. NYSNA researchers analyzed staffing data across 6 units of the hospital from February to November 2023, and found that overall, day and night shifts on these units were understaffed 93% of the time.
In the C6 unit, a medical-surgical unit where RNs care for many elderly patients, including those with dementia, nurses are supposed to be assigned a maximum of 4 patients, but they routinely care for even more and are sometimes assigned as many as 7 patients. RNs on C6 are often forced to work through their breaks and meal periods and are often unable to take any breaks during the course of their 12-hour shifts.
The chart below shows a total of 481 violations of safe staffing standards during this period. According to the Ellis nurses’ contract and New York’s Hospital Staffing Committee law, the safe nurse-to-patient ratio should be 4. The red line indicates the actual daily nurse-to-patient ratio on this unit. In a 9-month period, safe staffing standards were violated 85% of the time.
Other units of the hospital were even more poorly understaffed during this time. The A6 medical-surgical unit was understaffed 96% of the time. In 551 shifts, the nurse-to-patient ratio exceeded a safe staffing standard 528 times.
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**NYS Electronic Certificate of Need #231087 accessed via: https://apps.health.ny.gov/facilities/cons/nysecon/Home
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