https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/amp/30977964/3-nurses-suspended-by-ascension-turmoil-at-st-joes-hospital
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“According to the union, four nurses were available to treat 46 patients at the time, despite hospital guidelines that recommend the unit be staffed with 10 nurses.”
Not sure that’s such great advertising.
Fake news. Paid actors to generate free advertising for the emergency department with news coverage.
“John Fitzgerald, a staff representative for the nurses at St. Joe’s hospital, explained at the gathering that the nurses on Friday night requested adequate coverage for the shift. The nurses were told that some managers would be available to cover part of the shift but would not stay the whole night. When the nurses said that wasn’t adequate, ‘security was called on them and they were marched out of the hospital.’”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/10/24/1fc9-o24.html
“Nurses at Ascension Joe’s Medical Center were escorted out of the hospital Friday night, after drawing attention to a dire nursing shortage.”