Two more hospitals have reached agreements with nurses as the strike deadline for three others approaches on Monday, union officials say.

Nurses at BronxCare Health System and The Brooklyn Hospital Center reached tentative agreements early Saturday morning on three-year contracts that will improve staffing levels, raise pay — by 7%, 6% and 5% each year, respectively — and preserve health care benefits, the union said.

Brooklyn Hospital Center nurses completed their strike authorization vote on Jan. 5 with 99% of votes favoring the agreement, according to the union. Nurses ultimately did not deliver a strike notice.

BronxCare nurses, however, had planned to strike on Monday if an agreement was not reached.

"We are pleased to have reached an agreement with the New York State Nurses Association," Errol Schneer, a spokesperson from BronxCare, said. "We value and appreciate our BronxCare nurses for their great work and dedication to patient care."

Maimonides Medical Center ratified a new contract Friday, while NewYork-Presbyterian ratified Saturday afternoon.

The hospitals where nurses are still threatening to strike Monday morning without an agreement are Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West.

“Let’s settle fair contracts or nurses will have no choice but to strike come Monday,” said Nancy Hagans, president of the New York State Nurses Association, said in a press conference Saturday morning.

Hagans said her union members deserve higher salaries and staffing levels.

“Right now, our biggest concern is our patients is the patient safety patient ratios,” she added.

Union members want hospitals to address staffing issues they say existed before the pandemic and worsened in the last few years. 

“Nurses who left, they never replaced them. So it made it worse. And right now we are at a crisis where we are asking for management to hire more nurses and other for us to provide safe care to our patients,” Hagans said.

Mount Sinai on Friday started the process of transferring 13 neonatal intensive care unit infants from Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai West to three hospitals in the city not within the Mount Sinai system in anticipation of a strike.

According to Mount Sinai, seven of the NICU infants have been transferred. Hospital officials expect to move the remaining six on Saturday.

“Mount Sinai is dismayed by NYSNA’s reckless actions," a spokesperson for Mount Sinai Hospital said in statement. "The union is jeopardizing patients’ care.”

"I think the reason that we're here today and why us nurses are pushing so hard, because in our opinion, the hospitals have actually been very reckless," Matt Allen, a nurse leader at Mount Sinai told NY1's Dean Meminger Saturday night. "When we cry for help, when we cry for more staffing, those cries for help fall in deaf ears. We see that as disrespectful and abandoning those patients as well."

City private-sector nurses are also bargaining at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where nurses delivered a 12-day notice on Jan. 5 to strike starting on Jan. 17 if an agreement is not reached. Bargaining will resume on Monday morning.

Bargaining is still taking place at Interfaith Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. The two hospitals, which are part of One Brooklyn Health, have not held a strike authorization vote yet, according to the union.

Earlier this week, a City Hall spokesperson said the mayor and his administration are closely monitoring the negotiations and preparing for a potential strike.

"FDNY has contingency plans in place to reroute ambulances and NYC Health + Hospitals has emergency strategies to handle a surge in patients," the spokesperson said in a statement. "We encourage all of the parties to remain at the bargaining table for however long it takes and work toward reaching a voluntary agreement. Our system will be prepared, in the event of a strike, to meet the challenges."

The state’s Department of Health also has been planning for a strike. They are preparing to work closely with the city to move patients to other hospitals, postpone elective surgeries and implement other measures to ensure adequate emergency care services, the department said in a statement Saturday afternoon.