ALBANY, N.Y. ( NEWS10 ) – Albany Medical Center has submitted its plan to the state, on how the hospital will address alleged deficiencies in staffing. It’s in response to the recent Department of Health staffing report.
NEWS10 talked to nurses about that report and has the latest on the labor dispute and their contract negotiations.
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Staffing at the hospital continues to be the crux of the ongoing contract negotiations and the topic of a DOH investigation that the hospital is formally responding to on Monday.
AlbanyMed CEO Dr. Dennis McKenna addressed the DOH staffing report last Thursday. He said they had begun a dialogue to discuss the reports findings.
“Many times, and this is my own lived, personal experience, those findings will be nullified once further investigation reveals that those issues had been mischaracterized or they don’t exist at all,” said McKenna.
During that October 3 press conference he said the discrepancy report was being presented to the clinical staffing committee. October 7 was the deadline for the hospital to submit a response to the DOH outlining its corrective actions.