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To: Northwell Health Leadership: Michael Dowling, Maxine Carrington, Jason Limson, Kelly Cifu, Dr. Daniel Baker, Gabrielle Mitchell
Lenox Hill Surgical Technologists
To Whom It May Concern:
Lenox Hill Surgical Technologists have been represented by 1199SEIU in conversations since December of 2023. These conversations with Ms. Eleanora Shapiro (Associate Executive Director, Perioperative Services), Ms. Rimma Rabkin (Director of Patient Services, OR), and Lenox Hill HR included the importance of cross-training in all areas of the peri-operative department, avenues for continued education, creation of lead role opportunities (an agreement that already exists Lenox Hill), and lastly, multiple requests for wage increases to address retention.
In each meeting, there has been no progression. There has been no room for fruitful discussion nor collaboration. Surgical Technologists included in the meeting have left feeling disrespected and frustrated at leadership’s inability to provide response that mirrors partnership. To date, surgical technologists are down 15 employees who have left for improved opportunities where their skills can be utilized fully and are still having members actively seeking other sites to transfer to.
We, today, are being met with the threat of a thirty-day notice to change operations to include weekend scheduling despite not hearing the staff state we are not comfortable working in spaces that we have not been trained in. Leadership has placed surgical technologists in specific areas or “clusters” and we cannot afford to jeopardize patient safety nor our licensure simply because leadership will not provide a better and more efficient system.
If Lenox Hill Hospital Peri-operative Leadership serves us a thirty-day notice, please advise - we, the below signed surgical technologists will issue our resignations according to our 1199 Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Sincerely,
Lenox Hill Hospital Surgical Technologists
Lenox Hill Surgical Technologists have been represented by 1199SEIU in conversations since December of 2023. These conversations with Ms. Eleanora Shapiro (Associate Executive Director, Perioperative Services), Ms. Rimma Rabkin (Director of Patient Services, OR), and Lenox Hill HR included the importance of cross-training in all areas of the peri-operative department, avenues for continued education, creation of lead role opportunities (an agreement that already exists Lenox Hill), and lastly, multiple requests for wage increases to address retention.
In each meeting, there has been no progression. There has been no room for fruitful discussion nor collaboration. Surgical Technologists included in the meeting have left feeling disrespected and frustrated at leadership’s inability to provide response that mirrors partnership. To date, surgical technologists are down 15 employees who have left for improved opportunities where their skills can be utilized fully and are still having members actively seeking other sites to transfer to.
We, today, are being met with the threat of a thirty-day notice to change operations to include weekend scheduling despite not hearing the staff state we are not comfortable working in spaces that we have not been trained in. Leadership has placed surgical technologists in specific areas or “clusters” and we cannot afford to jeopardize patient safety nor our licensure simply because leadership will not provide a better and more efficient system.
If Lenox Hill Hospital Peri-operative Leadership serves us a thirty-day notice, please advise - we, the below signed surgical technologists will issue our resignations according to our 1199 Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Sincerely,
Lenox Hill Hospital Surgical Technologists
Why is this important?
People should join us in signing this petition in solidarity with Lenox Hill Hospital Surgical Technologists to allow for improvement in leadership staff, coordination of training to allow for optimal patient safety and care, creation of promotional titles, and increase in wages.