PEF urges legislators to reject budget proposals cutting services and reducing staff at DOH

PEF submitted testimony on Feb. 25 urging the Legislature to reject budget proposals that would discontinue the indigent care pool to public hospitals and implement interstate licensure, which would allow out-of-state nurses to treat and render services in New York.
The union advocated, instead, that New York invest in its state workforce and improve health care recruitment and retention.
“New York State maintains the... Read more