Cold Spring Hills nursing home workers face health insurance cutoff, union says
Imran Ansari
Dozens of health care workers lined the road in front of a Woodbury nursing home on Friday to demand that their employer pay its health insurance bill before they lose coverage.
Union organizers said Friday that the Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation has not made contractual payments to the health insurer for three months. The 443 workers represented at the facility by 1199 SEIU will lose their health insurance on Aug. 25 if payments are not made to the insurer, Timothy Rodgers, vice president of the union’s nursing home division, said.
“Healthcare workers, as we see COVID ticking up again in New York State, cannot go without health insurance," Rodgers said.