January 14, 2026

Statement on employee policies and NYSNA intimidation:

“Mount Sinai has clear policies in place to ensure excellent and safe patient care. We expect every employee to follow the rules. This discipline was a result of violating Mount Sinai policy that impacted patient safety and was unrelated to union activity.

Now NYSNA leaders are threatening and intimidating nurses who have decided to join their teams caring for patients. This behavior is unacceptable, and we are offering resources to support nurses who chose to come to work.”

January 13, 2026

Statement on the second day of NYSNA’s strike at Mount Sinai hospitals:

“We are incredibly grateful to the Mount Sinai nurses who have continued to come to work and not participate in NYSNA’s strike. We had 20 percent of our scheduled nurses come to work on Monday and put our patients first, and so far today we have seen similar numbers, hundreds of nurses who have joined their teams at the bedside. It is a credit to our entire system that we were prepared to withstand this disruption and continue to be there for New Yorkers in need. 

Unfortunately, NYSNA has yet to provide an offer that could be considered reasonable, instead sticking to proposals that would cost $1.6 billion over three years just at The Mount Sinai Hospital, raising average nurse pay to close to $250,000, which is before factoring in the contributions we make to benefits. 

We have now committed significant additional funds to maintain our qualified and specialized agency nurses so that we can continue to be prepared to provide safe patient care at least through next week as the strike continues.”

Our care teams also continue to provide incredible care to New Yorkers, and it’s important to highlight just a couple of the remarkable feats we saw just on the first days of the strike, including:

• A young patient on life support undergoing a successful LVAD implementation, a very high risk cardiac surgery using a heart-lung machine
• Successfully managing a 25 percent higher than normal patient registration in The Mount Sinai Hospital emergency department

January 12, 2026

Statement on start of strike at Mount Sinai hospitals:

“Unfortunately NYSNA decided to move forward with its strike while refusing to move on from its extreme economic demands, which we can not agree to, but we are ready with 1,400 qualified and specialized nurses – and prepared to continue to provide safe patient care for as long as this strike lasts.”

January 9, 2026

Statement on potential strike preparations:

“Our patients are our top priority and we are well prepared to continue to deliver excellent care to our communities for however long a strike may last. We have secured more than 1,000 qualified and specialized agency nurses to join our care teams, many of whom have already been integrated into units across our hospitals. In the event of a strike all of our hospitals and emergency departments will remain open, and we expect most appointments will proceed as originally scheduled. There has been tremendous coordination across our entire network to manage discharges and ensure that we are prepared for the start of the strike and able to increase our capacity if a potential strike drags on.

We continue to bargain in good faith in the hopes of reaching an agreement that is fair, reasonable, and responsible. While we know a strike can be disruptive, we are prepared for a strike that could last an indefinite amount of time and have taken every step to best support our patients and employees in the event NYSNA forces our nurses to walk away from the bedside for the second time in three years.”

January 5, 2026

Statement on NYSNA negotiations:

“We are continuing to bargain in good faith in the hopes of reaching an agreement that is fair, reasonable, and responsible, but unfortunately just a week before a potential strike NYSNA has refused to move off of its extreme economic proposals that demand hospitals like ours spend billions of dollars on increased nursing compensation and additional hires.

Most of the union’s claims about bargaining are untrue. Our negotiators have never proposed reducing healthcare benefits or the number of nurses we employ, in fact Mount Sinai has hired more than 1,000 new nurses over the last three years.

Our nurses are an invaluable part of our care teams, and we remain ready to reach a new agreement that recognizes their tremendous impact on providing world-class care to patients every day, but we cannot agree to a contract that harms our ability to invest in other areas across our system or jeopardizes the long-term health of our system and threatens the financial stability of hospitals across New York City.

While we hope to reach a new deal, our top priority will always be providing the best care for our patients and supporting all of our employees, so we are taking the necessary steps to prepare now in case of a strike, especially as NYSNA threatens to take more than 20,000 nurses away from the patients’ bedside at a time that the state is experiencing a record number of flu hospitalizations. While we know a strike can be disruptive, we have experienced a strike before and have taken every step to best support our patients and employees in the event nurses walk away for the second time in three years.”

January 2, 2026

Statement on NYSNA 10-day strike notice:

“After only a day of working with a mediator at one of our hospitals, NYSNA is yet again threatening to force nurses to walk away from patients’ bedsides – this time while continuing to insist on increasing average nurse pay by $100,000. NYSNA has acknowledged that federal funding cuts will cost New York hospitals $8 billion and 35,000 jobs, but just three years after its last strike the union is showing once again it is willing to use patients as bargaining chips this time while pushing billions of dollars in economic demands that would compromise the financial health of our entire system and threaten the financial stability of hospitals across New York City. We will continue to work in good faith to reach an agreement before the strike, however after months of preparation, our system is ready for every outcome so we can maintain high quality patient care and continue to serve our patients and communities across New York.”

December 22, 2025

Statement on NYSNA strike authorization:

“Instead of bargaining and working together to reach an agreement, union leaders are politicizing the negotiations as they have made clear they are prepared to strike once again, dividing employees from employers and encouraging nurses to abandon their patients.

“NYSNA has stated that “our healthcare system is under attack” and “healthcare cuts will mean…less hospital funding,” which will cost hospitals in New York $8 billion and 35,000 jobs, yet NYSNA is demanding hospitals increase the average nurse salary by $110,000 to $272,000 per year – for 10 days of work per month.

“While we are continuing to work to reach a deal to provide nurses with exceptional wages and benefits, we are taking steps to prepare for a strike, and have already begun bringing together clinical leaders to run staffing disruption drills, integrating outside nurses into our daily operations, and are coordinating with other systems to manage capacity to ensure our campuses are prepared to maintain high-quality patient care in the event of a staffing disruption. These preparations all are expensive, that takes away resources that could be invested in nurses or other members of our care teams.”

December 1, 2025

Statement on discipline for nurses disrupting patient care:

“Patient safety is our top priority. In this situation, these three nurses were disciplined after their own co-workers complained about them actively interfering with other nurses providing patient care in the emergency department.

While we look forward to continuing to bargain in good faith at the negotiating table, we value our nursing colleagues and could not risk patient care by allowing them to be distracted in their delivery of compassionate, world class patient care.”