A union representing a group of nurses at a New York City hospital reached a temporary contract agreement with its management, but some 9,000 nurses at several other major hospitals were still preparing to go on strike.
The New York State Nurses Association and BronxCare Health System said Saturday that a tentative agreement had been reached; The union said this includes salary hikes every year of its three-year term as well as an increase in the number of employees.
Another hospital, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, reached a temporary agreement with nurses on Friday evening.
But other private hospitals, including Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, did not yet have agreements in place to avoid walkouts that began on Monday morning, both of which have more than 1,000 beds.
Hospitals have taken steps to prepare for the strike by transferring patients and redirecting ambulances.
