Month fewer not reaching a deal stems around safe staffing, this is the ratio of nurses to patients in order to have safe care for these patients. i want to bring in one transplant nurse here. where is he? this is warren. he s a transplant nurse here at mt. sinai. warren, tell me why are you out here this morning? we re out here because we re fighting for safer staffing ratios for our patients. we want to make sure we get an equal wage, a fair wage so everyone can feel like we re working for those who care about us. what is your concern about the patients right now in the hospital without you today? we ve been fighting for working under safer conditions. there are laws in place that aren t being enforced anymore. now they re working under conditions that we work under. now we hope these patients would be under safe conditions. we do the best we can every day and we want to make sure they get the best care, not just on days we aren t here.
This comes after talks over pay and staffing with mt. sinai hospital in manhattan failed overnight. the hospitals have been diverted ambulances to other hospitals, putting elective surgeries on hold, transferring infants out of the neonatal intensive care network. that s what got me, vanessa, when i heard babies were being moved out of the nicu. what s the crux of the impasse here? reporter: poppy, the number of nurses in front of mt. sinai have been growing by the hour. we expect there are hundreds out here right now. they span two city blocks from 101st street all the way around the corner, down the street coming up to 99th street. the real issue here with these two hospitals, mt. sinai and