Nurses protest layoffs in Utica

It's National Nurses Day, and instead of celebrating, many local nurses are protesting layoffs at MVHS.

In utica are protesting!

65 nurses were recently subject to layoffs at st.

Elizabeth medical center in utica.

Nurses, elected officials, and community members are rallying to oppose these staffing cuts.

Nurses say they were already short-staffed and they say these cuts pose a big risk to patient safety and public health.

The public was also invited.

Organizers ask that those who are immuno- compromised, over 60, or pregnant, should stay home.

All attendees should practice social distancing and wear proper p- p-e.

Organizers of the rally say the m-v-h-s staff cuts run a serious risk of the hospital not being prepared to meet patient needs.

They say m-v-h-s could have... and should have... found other ways to cut their losses... other than doing it through staffing.

6:03 "i am a per diem nurse at st.

Elizabeth's................... "why are we laying off nurses?"

2:26 "but i would like to reassure the community that we have a really great relationship with our nurses and all of our frontline workers and all of our staff 2:47 "and it is unfortunate that nysna leadership and a few people make the noise and make it seems like it's a different story from what goes on here every day" according to hospital officials, the layoffs affected 65 nurses, and when you subtract those who applied for vacant positions and bumped those with less seniority, 40 wound up being laid off.

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