With many intensive care units already at maximum capacity in the Inland Empire, doctors are warning that an increase in cases after Christmas and New Year s could be catastrophic.
The Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency is prioritizing staffing requests placed with the California Department of Public Health, and Barstow Community Hospital is currently their top priority. They ve supplied the hospital with at least eight additional ventilators.
Meanwhile, nurses with SEIU 121 RN have called for a 10-day strike at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in Los Angeles and Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside.
Nurses threaten to strike hospital group over staffing shortage, inadequate COVID-19 safety protections
LOS ANGELES - Several nurses are threatening to strike against a local hospital group.
The hospitals affected are Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Riverside Community Hospital and West Hills Hospital and Medical Center.
Healthcare workers say they are dealing with staffing shortages and inadequate COVID-19 safety protections for employees and patients.
“I know there’s not enough staff to help us. We never have adequate staffing, so during a pandemic it really heightens the anxiety and fear levels,” said April Scolari, an emergency department nurse at Riverside Community.