NewYork Presbyterian is planning to lay off 2% of its workers on its Columbia campus. The nonprofit hospital is moving to completely eliminate its palliative care unit working with end-of-life patients, among other dire changes. “There are only two palliative care programs in NYC”, said Michealle Donohue, who has worked in the unit as a nurse for seven years. She says that her biggest concern is for her patients. “I feel like the rug has been pulled out from under me. But mostly, I worry about my patients, their families, and my hospital colleagues who will no longer be able to rely on our specialized services.” Members of the New York State Nurses Association, 1199 SEIU and Communications Workers of America Local 1104 rallied near NewYork-Presbyterian’s Columbia campus Wednesday, June 11. Karen Eck, a nurse practitioner at the NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital who has worked at NYP for more than 35 years, is also deeply concerned about affects on the pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit in which she works. The hospital has cited looming government cuts to Medicare as a reason for the cuts, but meanwhile, Donohue says, more than 30 executives at NewYork-Presbyterian earned annual salary and benefits packages worth over $1 million.
Read the full story by Crystal Lewis for The Chief, published June 16, 2025, here: https://thechiefleader.com/stories/layoffs-at-ny-presbyterian-draw-unions-ire,54571
