Supporting Our Nurses: Collective Bargaining Updates With NYSNA
The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai West/Mount Sinai Morningside have begun contract negotiations with the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), the union that represents nurses at these hospitals. NYSNA’s contracts with these hospitals expire at the end of 2025.
Mount Sinai nurses play a vital role in delivering the high-quality, evidence-based care that our patients require, and we deeply value and respect their contributions.
Our goal is to reach agreements that continue to provide our valued nurses with competitive compensation and benefits, and ensure a safe, supportive working environment that enables them to provide exceptional care to all our patients across the diverse communities we serve.
About Negotiations
We have a long history of working successfully and collaboratively with NYSNA and we are confident that we will find common ground to reach contracts that remain fair, reasonable, and responsible. Bargaining may have its challenges and lively discussions along the way, but we are committed to negotiating in good faith at all times.
We deeply value our nurses and will work toward reaching new contracts that continue to recognize and reward their hard work and dedication. We will update this site regularly as negotiations progress, and we look forward to reaching agreement as soon as possible.
AI Tools to Support Nurses and Patients
At Mount Sinai, we believe the future of nursing is both human and intelligent. By thoughtfully integrating artificial intelligence, we’re giving nurses smarter tools to lighten workloads, enhance safety, and spend more time on what matters most—caring for patients.
LEADING THE INDUSTRY FORWARD
MSHS has been at the forefront of developing and using AI to support our clinical teams and enhance patient care:
- Mount Sinai created its Clinical Data Science Team in 2017
- The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was the first medical school to create a
Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
AUGMENTED INTELLIGENCE
The AI tools already in use augment and support the incredible work of our care teams and are pioneering how we can more accurately predict outcomes.
- More time with patients—Our virtual agent Sofiya aids preprocedure coordination in our cardiac catheterization lab, saving nurses more than 200 hours in just five months so that they could spend more time caring for patients and less time on tedious administrative tasks.
- Preventing malnutrition—Malnutrition is chronically underdiagnosed, and our clinical science team built a model that tracks more than 80 variables and sends an alert where a diagnosis is likely, leading to a nearly 3x increase in diagnosis and corrective treatment.
- Pressure injury prevention—A Mount Sinai clinical nurse came up with the idea for an automated tool that has led to a 50 percent increase in efficiency of identifying patients at risk of bed sores, reducing the number of injuries.
CHARTING THE FUTURE
- Mount Sinai nurses have been playing critical roles in developing these tools and are part of the system’s AI governance structure, aiding in evaluation and implementation.
- Nurses are also part of a multidisciplinary care team that entered the NurseHack4Health Pitch-A-Thon to request funding for Admit AI, an AI-powered clinical decision support tool that predicts hospital admissions two to three hours in advance.
- The goal is to pilot Admit AI across EDs and use the tool to prepare beds in advance, reducing boarding times and improving ED capacity.
AI tools that keep clinical care safe, effective, ethical, responsible, and secure
are the future, and Mount Sinai nurses are critical players helping our team make advances in AI every day.