‘Stop the bleeding’—A year after Safe Staffing law, nurses report high patient loads

‘Stop the bleeding’—A year after Safe Staffing law, nurses report high patient loads
Times Union (Albany, NY)
December 15, 2023
One year after New York’s minimum staffing law for hospitals went into effect, nurses continue to report exceptionally high patient loads as hospital leaders struggle to keep up with turnover rates. ... Implementation of the new regulations—from the establishment of committees to negotiate those institution-specific staffing standards to the mandate for hospitals to report departments’ actual staffing ratios to the state Department of Health annually—has been rocky across the state’s 222 hospitals.