'Write your own history': South Valley doctors, nurses make desperate plea to stay home for holidays
KFSN
CORRECTION:
The Action News story that aired on Tuesday stated, "Some nurses at Sierra View Medical Center in Porterville are putting in 140-hour workweeks to help meet the unprecedented demand for care."
Hospital officials say this isn't accurate. They say there was an instance of one ICU nurse working 140 hours within a pay period of two weeks (not one week).
South Valley hospitals are at a breaking point.
They're understaffed due to employees who are sick or in quarantine, and as admissions of COVID-19 patients continue to soar, staffed beds are scarce and emergency rooms are becoming overwhelmed.