115.996 Shortages of Nursing and Other Health Care Personnel:
MSSNY is working with the Legislature to implement short and long range measures to address nursing and other health care personnel shortages such as: (1) Using New York State funds earmarked for hospital implementation of the revised minimum hospital code to provide labor rate relief for nursing and other health care personnel; (2) Providing hospital reimbursement sufficient to allow hospitals to provide adequate salaries for nursing and other health care personnel; (3) Encouraging development of salary and career ladders in nursing that relate experience and increased responsibility to salary; (4) Developing and increasing efforts to educate and retain professional health care workers; (5) Developing efforts to increase and retain personnel beginning with junior and senior high students, and that include scholarship programs and expansion of loan forgiveness programs.
MSSNY is identifying additional measures that it can support to address these problems surrounding health care personnel shortages.
MSSNY has strongly encouraged the New York State Department of Health to establish a Hepatitis B Vaccination program for high risk health care workers in New York State and is seeking support from the Hospital Association of New York State (HANYS) for a joint effort to achieve changes in State regulation and/or legislation to obtain State funding so that such vaccinations can be provided free of charge to any health care worker at high risk. (HOD 1988-51; Reaffirmed HOD 2013; Reaffirmed HOD 2019 in lieu of res 103)
