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As New York’s largest private employer, Northwell is investing in outrageous salaries and benefit packages for hospital executives, while advancing proposals that put quality patient care at risk. NYSNA nurses are demanding that Northwell Health put patients over profits.  

Northwell says it’s “Raising Health” for the communities it serves, but instead they have been “Raising Wealth” for hospital executives while deprioritizing healthcare workers and patients. 

• Northwell Health is the largest healthcare provider and private employer in New York State with some of the highest executive compensation in the healthcare industry. In 2023, the 20 top executives at Northwell made over $36.7 million in salaries, bonuses and perks. This includes their outgoing CEO Michael Dowling, who alone made over $9 million in 2023. 

• Northwell is growing quickly through mergers and acquisitions that leave patients with less choice and higher prices. Northwell has a history of hiking up patient prices after they acquire smaller community hospitals.  

• In 2025, Northwell Health merged with Nuvance Health, the 21st expansion Northwell has made since its founding in 1997, increasing its presence in the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. The Connecticut State Office of Health Strategy concluded the merger would likely "substantially" increase costs for consumers, citing Northwell's past acquisitions as evidence of increased inpatient hospital prices. 

• A February 2025 report by the Community Service Society found that mergers like Northwell and Nuvance’s have resulted in significant increases in healthcare costs in recent years. 

• In 2024, Northwell Health announced plans to launch its own film and television production company, Northwell Studios, to produce scripted and unscripted hospital dramas featuring real patients. The project will likely build Northwell’s brand and generate more revenue.  The total cost of this side business is unknown, but similar television ventures have cost patient privacy and hospitals millions in fines for violating patient privacy.   

• Northwell Health contracts with at least two union-busting firms to fight against nurses hoping to organize a union at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY. Heightened Solutions, a Montana-based firm, and The Crossroads Group, a California-based firm, both charge $475 per hour per consultant for advice on silencing nurses' voices and rights to union representation. 

If Northwell can afford to acquire entire health systems, launch Hollywood production companies, and pay union-busting consultants, it can afford to settle fair contracts with nurses that safely staff hospitals and protect patient care. Northwell nurses and community advocates are fighting to make sure Northwell’s greedy corporate expansion doesn't come at the expense of nurses and patients.