Advocacy for Healthcare
Oswego Health Opposes Staffing Ratios
Oswego Health opposes staffing ratio legislation to be considered in the next few months by New York State’s elected representatives, which would have a major impact upon Oswego Hospital and The Manor at Seneca Hill.
Legislation has been introduced (A.6571 and S.3691) this year that would impose minimum nurse to patient staffing ratios for health care providers across New York State. Mandated staffing ratios would not only impose a massive unfunded mandate, but are the wrong approach to staffing. They do not account for the unique patient population at each facility and the specific care teams that individual patients need.
In Summary:
The latest peer-reviewed studies have found no direct link between mandated nurse staffing ratios and improved patient outcomes.
Patient outcomes are improved primarily through the implementation of evidence-based practices to standardize care. Every hospital and health system in the state continues to aggressively invest in and implement a variety of patient care improvement strategies, including those comprising the New York State Partnership for Patients initiative.
Staffing ratios could cost New York’s hospitals and nursing homes about $3 billion annually, amounting to the largest ever unfunded health care mandate.
Hospitals and health systems already struggle under the cumulative impact of more than $27 billion in recent and anticipated cuts on the state and federal levels.
Please join Oswego Health in opposing this legislation by contacting the state elected representatives below.
CONTACT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES
US Senator Charles E. Schumer
Room 313, Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-6542
PO Box 7318, 100 Clinton St., Room 841
Syracuse, NY 13261
315-423-5471
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
478 Russell
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-4451
Syracuse/Central NY
James M. Hanley Federal Building
100 South Clinton Street, Room 1470
PO Box 7378
Syracuse, NY 13261
Tel. (315) 448-0470
Fax (315) 448-0476
U.S. Congressman Dan Maffei
Oswego Office
13 West Oneida Street, 2nd floor
Oswego, NY 13126
Phone: (315) 342-2192
Fax: (315) 342-2528
Syracuse office
100 North Salina Street
1 Clinton Square
Syracuse, NY 13202
phone: (315) 423-5657
fax: (315) 423-5604
STATE REPRESENTATIVES
Dullas State Office Building
317 Washington St.,
Watertown, NY 13601
315-782-3418
State Assemblyman Will Barclay
District 124
Room 546 LOB
Albany, New York 12248
518-455-5841
BarclaW@assembly.state.ny.us
200 N. Second St.
Fulton, NY 13069
315-598-5185
