Joseph Goldstein

Workers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital voted for a contract with raises and layoff protections, meaning more than 4,000 nurses will return.

The agreement with NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital will still need to be ratified by rank-and-file members.

In many ways, the parents whose adolescents had been receiving treatment at NYU Langone Health had been expecting this call. Still, they were stunned.

NYU Langone Health cited the “current regulatory environment” in its decision to discontinue its gender medicine program for minors.

But a rift has emerged among the union’s leaders as workers at four hospitals are back on the job, while a walkout persists at a fifth hospital.

At Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals, health care workers ratified a deal to end the walkout, but nurses remain on the picket line at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.

A tentative agreement was reached between the New York State Nurses Association and the Mount Sinai Health System and Montefiore Medical Center.

City health authorities are joining a network that counters new pathogens and emerging outbreaks.

The two sides in the labor dispute returned to the bargaining table last week, but a hospital chief executive said they “remain far apart on a deal.”

Pedro, a 2-year-old, needs a new heart and has spent months in a New York hospital. With his nurses on the picket line, replacement workers care for him.

Hospital administrators and union officials appear to be digging in for an extended battle over staffing levels and pay.

Workers are demanding more robust staffing levels and higher pay. The strike comes three years after a smaller job action won significant gains.

The Trump administration said it was placing a hold on $10 billion in subsidies across five states, including New York.

The number of patients going to hospital emergency rooms with flulike symptoms has soared.

The U.S. Supreme Court directed a lower court to review the ban, which applies to strict vaccine requirements in New York schools.

Jennifer Capasso had endured multiple tumors. She wondered what might be said during her next cancer surgery. So, she hit record on her phone.