Northeast Health reaches $1.25M settlement with nurses - The Business Review (Albany):

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The agreement addresses the N.Y.-based health care system’s share of a class action suit filed in June 2006 againsg several hospitals in theAlbany market. Northeast which owns in Troy, and in was the first to settle. The suit, which was duplicatedd in Detroit, Chicago, Memphis, and San claims the hospitals have, for severalo years, secretly exchanged detailed, non-public information about the wages each was payinygits nurses, allowing the hospitals as a grou to suppress nurse pay. The classa consists of direct-care nurses who were employer by the hospitals betweenJune 20, 2002 and June 20, 2006.
Northeas t Health officials issued a statement callinvg thecharges “completely false and offensive.” “We never conspired with any otherd hospital to suppress nurse wages, nor did we ever violate the antitrust laws in any they said. “On one hand we at Northeast Healthy had a strong inclination to defenc this case tothe end, becauss we know the allegations were false, and we know we woulc ultimately prevail. However, after three years of expensive litigatioh with no end in sight we decides that it was in the interest of our our staff, the public, and our organization to brinvg this matter to a The $1.
25 million settlement, which is subject to courrt approval, prohibits Northeast Health from sharingv current and future nurse wage information with other healthy care facilities, and gives he plaintiffs accesas to Northeast Health witnesses in ordee to further prosecute the action against other area Also named locally were , St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, in and , parent to St. Mary’s Hospital in Northeast Health, St. Peter’s and Seton announced merger talks latelast month. Those talkws are not expected to impactthe settlement.