By Morgan Lee, Associated Press Many nurses and doctors, meanwhile, say staffing at the hospital was inadequate because of Conejo’s move to cut back on nurses in the first week of March to offset declining hospital revenues after elective surgeries were suspended....
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COVID-Crisis PPE Emergency
On May 1, 2020, a panicked primary care physician in an LA County clinic wrote to supervision, “I will not be able to see the COVID suspect patients in the cafeteria. I do not have proper PPE [Personal Protective Equipment]. We need to reuse our jump suit…We have to...
Hospital staff protest, ask for CEO to step down
By Donovan Quintero, Native Times Doctors like Director of Community Medicine at RMCH Caleb Lauber, a Diné physician who’s been practicing for 27 years, said he was concerned while he joined the protest. Dr. Sandra Robinson at RMCH protests on Friday in Gallup....
Unsafe, understaffed, overwhelmed
By Nick Pachelli, Searchlight New Mexico In the past two weeks, one COVID-19 patient died following what several staff physicians described as gross mismanagement by health care workers at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital. Another patient suffered severe brain...
How a New Mexico hospital rebelled against its bosses as Covid-19 hit
By, Nick Pachelli, Searchlight New Mexico In the past two weeks, one Covid-19 patient died following what several staff physicians described as gross mismanagement by healthcare workers at Rehoboth McKinley Christian hospital. Another patient suffered severe brain...