Hospitals and nursing homes are facing a funding crisis which negatively impacts issues like staffing and access to quality care. Health care employees labor long hours for minimal pay. Facilities like Sunrise Nursing Home have critical staffing issues that need to be addressed. Frances Sullivan had the opportunity to address some of New York's critical health care needs, but instead she voted against HCRA, which provided funding to deal with some of the critical staffing needs facing our industry.
Nothing is more precious than our health.
I want to go to Albany to fight for health care reform and for Oswego County. This endorsement shows it is time for a change, and time for Oswego County to have an Assembly member who will fight for them. Hammill is challenging decade long incumbent Assemblywoman France Sullivan in the 117 Assembly District. The district is wholly contained inn Oswego County. Service Employees International Union is the largest health care union in North America, with more than 1.4 million members.