Its 2026-2027 clinical staffing plan
Mount Sinai Morningside: nurse-to-patient ratios by unit
The staffing plan Mount Sinai Morningside (New York County) filed with New York's Department of Health: for each of its 26 units and each shift, the planned number of RNs and the planned patients one RN cares for, set by a committee at least half made of frontline staff. Mount Sinai Health System's open jobs.
Every unit, every shift
Planned patients per RN by shift, the planned RNs and aides on the day shift, and whether the committee reached consensus.
| Unit | Day | Evening | Night | RNs (day) | Aides (day) | Consensus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cath LabCardiac Catheterization/EP | None | None | None | 9.75 | 7 | No |
| EPCardiac Catheterization/EP | None | None | None | 8.4 | 63 | No |
| Emergency DepartmentEmergency Department | None | None | None | 18 | 7 | No |
| EndoscopyEndoscopy | None | None | None | 9 | 4 | No |
| OncologyInfusion Services | None | None | None | 2.8 | 0.9 | No |
| 6E CCU / OPEN HEART ICU / CSICU-Nursing - Critical Care CardiacIntensive Care | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 13 | 2 | No |
| 7E ICU-Nursing - Critical CareIntensive Care | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 12 | 2 | No |
| 6W MEDICAL UNIT -Nursing - Med SurgMedical/Surgical | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 6 | 2 | No |
| 7W MEDICAL UNIT -Nursing - Med SurgMedical/Surgical | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 7 | 3 | No |
| 8E SURGICAL UNIT - Nursing SurgeryMedical/Surgical | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 8 | 3 | No |
| 9W MEDICAL UNIT -Nursing - Med SurgMedical/Surgical | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 6 | 3 | No |
| Clark 5 - Nursing - Med SurgMedical/Surgical | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5 | 2 | No |
| EchoOther | None | None | None | 3 | 1 | No |
| HemodialysisOther | None | None | None | 4 | 1 | No |
| Operating RoomOther | None | None | None | 14.5 | 5.8 | No |
| PACUOther | None | None | None | 8.25 | 1 | No |
| Multispecialty Article 28 Practices, Medicine, Orthopediacs, Urology, Pain ManagementOutpatient Clinics | None | None | None | 3 | 9 | No |
| 5W CHILD ADOLESCENT PSYCH-Nursing - Adolescent PsychPsychiatry | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3 | 4 | No |
| CLARK 8 ADULT PSYCH UNIT-Nursing - Adult PsychPsychiatry | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 4 | 4 | No |
| CLARK 9 GERI PSYCH UNITPsychiatry | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4 | 4 | No |
| Clark 7 REHAB UNIT- Nursing - RehabRehabilitaion | 5.0 | None | None | 8 | 8 | No |
| 4 WEST-Nursing- Cardiac StepdownStepdown | 3.5 | None | None | 3 | 1 | No |
| 8 WEST Nursing - Ortho/StepdownStepdown | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4 | 2 | No |
| 10E TELE / STEP DOWN UNIT-Nursing - Telemetry CardiacTelemetry | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 7 | 3 | No |
| 9 EAST Nursing - Telemetry Med SurgTelemetry | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 8 | 3 | No |
| CLARK 7 REHAB UNIT- Nursing - RehabRehabilitaion | None | 5.0 | 5.0 | None | None | No |
Mount Sinai Morningside nurse-to-patient ratios by unit: common questions
What is the nurse-to-patient ratio at Mount Sinai Morningside?
By its 2026-2027 clinical staffing plan, on the day shift: medical/surgical units 5.0 patients per RN (New York's median hospital 5.0), intensive care units 1.6 patients per RN (New York's median hospital 2.0), stepdown units 4.1 patients per RN (New York's median hospital 3.7), telemetry units 4.3 patients per RN (New York's median hospital 5.0), psychiatry units 5.0 patients per RN (New York's median hospital 6.0) and rehabilitaion units 5.0 patients per RN (New York's median hospital 6.0). These are planned averages for each unit; the table lists every unit and the evening and night shifts.
Is Mount Sinai Morningside a union hospital?
Its plan reports a collective bargaining agreement covering clinical staff: New York State Nurses Association (856 employees, contract to 31 Dec 2028) and SEIU 1199 (1,282 employees, contract to 30 Sep 2026).
Did Mount Sinai Morningside's staffing committee agree on the plan?
Not on every unit: the committee did not reach consensus on 62 of the plan's 62 unit-and-shift plans (among them Cath Lab, EP, Emergency Department and Endoscopy), where the plan carries its members' and the chief executive's statements.
Is Mount Sinai Morningside hiring?
Mount Sinai Health System has its open jobs here, read from its own job board every day.
Sources and method
The plan as the Department publishes it in its normalized form, read table by table. "Patients per RN" is the plan's planned average number of patients one RN cares for on the unit and shift; procedural units (a cath lab, endoscopy) plan few by their nature. Read 9 Nov 2026. Every New York hospital.
- New York State Department of Health, hospital clinical staffing plans 2026-2027, Mount Sinai Morningside (PFI 1469)
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CareJobs.Now. (2026). Mount Sinai Morningside nurse-to-patient ratios by unit. Data as of 9 Nov 2026. https://carejobs.now/new-york-hospital-staffing-plans/mount-sinai-morningside