A pair of Westchester County nurse aides working out of a White Plains nursing home are facing multiple charges after allegedly losing track of a dementia patient and attempting to cover it up to authorities.
Several hundred nurses and health care professionals picketed outside Sparrow Hospital for about an hour Tuesday evening following months of unresolved contract negotiations.
The St. Charles County Department of Public Health canceled vaccine clinics, education programs and CPR training this fall after more than half of its nurses and a health educator resigned.
The 1,200-member nurses union and management agreed on a tentative contract on Monday night, putting to bed a 20-month process that resulted in two pickets, a one-day strike, a four-day lockout, and nearly 50 negotiating sessions.
One nurse was disciplined for swallowing 11 Percocets while on the job, another whose boyfriend was arrested for filling a patient’s prescription and a third nurse who stole tax payer money for getting paid for time she did not work.