SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) held a town hall meeting on Wednesday night to address women’s healthcare services they said are under attack, right here in the Capital Region. As soon as next week, surgical services will be moved from Bellevue Woman's Center to Ellis Hospital. Nurses and the community came together to voice their concerns of what they feel is next to come under the Ellis St. Peter’s Health Partners merger.

“Women's health care is falling farther and farther behind. We should be ashamed of ourselves in Schenectady County that we are allowing our young women to receive worse and worse care. We need to take care of our women, and we need to do better,” said one community member in attendance at the meeting.

“Please, let's protect

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