In Michigan, a neonatal nurse reports that she was removed from her job because a Swastika-tattooed father who didn’t want his daughter treated by any African Americans.
The nurse, Tonya Battle, had been working at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan, since 1988. Yet when a newborn girl came into the neonatal intensive care unit recently, Battle was abruptly removed from the case because “the father told the [nurse in charge] that he did not want and African Americans taking care of his baby.”
Battle is now suing the hospital for discrimination.
“She [BATTLE]was shocked, offended and in disbelief that she was so egregiously discriminated against based on her race and re-assigned,” the court documents read.
The evidence in this case appears overwhelming. Not only was Battle removed from the case, but later she found a note in the baby’s file that read, “No African American nurse to take care of baby.”
Neither Battle nor any other nurses of color were allowed to care for the baby for her month-long stay in the hospital.
Black Nurses Banned from Caring for Child in Michigan Hospital | Alternet.
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She did right to play along so that she sue the paint off that hospital. I wanted have given a damn if they had that little bastard in the damn street.
Think about this for a minute. Hospitals, particularly nurses, discriminate more than any other
industry. They discriminate against male patients and male nurses. Male nurses not allowed
to work in labor and delivery, not allowed to work in post-op gyn floors.
Males are not allowed to work in mammography, yet females work exclusively on urology
floors. The discrimination goes on and on.
I wonder who was paying for this care? A month is a long time.