Nursing shortages in New York made headlines this fall when Lewis County General Hospital announced it would halt deliveries for lack of vaccinated nurses in its maternity ward, then again when Mount Sinai South Nassau temporarily closed its emergency department in Long Beach last week, blaming the same problem.
Such events have shed light on what stakeholders said is a longstanding, statewide shortage of registered nurses and nurse practitioners that predates the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the health care industry is seizing the moment to push lawmakers on reforms aimed at enlarging and strengthening the pipeline of new nurses into local health care facilities.
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