PEF Nurses, EMS workers to hold press conference, informational picket at Stony Brook University Hospital

ALBANY, NY (05/15/2018) (readMedia)-- Nurses and EMS workers, represented by the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF), will hold an informational picket and press conference to highlight the severe long-term shortage of health care workers at Stony Brook University Medical Center, the center's inability to retain qualified staff, pay inequity, and the affects these issues have on patient care.

WHO:

New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF)
WHAT:

The rally will start at 12 noon with a press conference at 12:30 p.m. with PEF President Wayne Spence and PEF health care workers from Stony Brook. The rally will continue to 3 p.m.

A mobile billboard truck, with the message 'Stop Short Staffing' to help protect our patients, will be driving around the community Tuesday, May 15 and Wednesday, May 16, inviting the public to attend the press conference and informational picket.
WHEN: Wednesday May 16, 2018 at 12:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: Stony Brook University Medical Center
101 Nicolls Road (Route 97)
Stony Brook, New York 11794
NOTES:

Speakers at the press conference will be available for media interviews afterwards.

Directions: The event will take place 8 miles north of Long Island Expressway, Exit 62. Make a right turn off Nicolls Road onto the Health Sciences Center Drive (East Loop Road). The press conference/picket will be held on the patio to the left of the parking garage.