NYC nurses happy strike is over

Two New York City hospitals have reached a tentative contract agreement with thousands of striking nurses that ends this week's walkout that disrupted patient care, officials announced Thursday.

The nurses, represented by the New York State Nurses Association, walked out early Monday after negotiations with management ran aground at Mount Sinai Hospital, in Manhattan, and Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx.

Each has over 1,000 beds and 3,500 or more union nurses.Nurses for both hospitals were to return to work Thursday morning, the union said.A post on Mount Sinai's website said the hospital was pleased to have reached a tentative agreement with the union.