No black nurses request by Father for baby gets a lawsuit.

[powderman]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/02/20/no-black-nurses-request-draws-lawsuit/
 
 No Black Nurses Request Draws Lawsuit    Feb 20, 2013 12:29pm This note was taped to a baby's clipboard at a Michigan Hospital, a lawsuit alleges. (Credit: ABC12/ABC News) A Michigan hospital is under fire after a lawsuit claims it fulfilled a father’s request to have no black nurses look after his baby in the neonatal intensive care unit last fall.
A black nurse sued Hurley Medical Center for discrimination and violation of the state civil rights act after the nurse manager reassigned her because of the man’s request for no black nurses, according to the complaint.
 
The man also pulled up his sleeve to reveal “some type of tattoo which was believed to be a swastika of some kind,” the complaint from nurse Tonya Battle, 49, read. The name of the father who made the request was not included in the court papers.
 
“Please, No African American Nurses to care for [redacted] Baby per Dad’s request. Thank you,”  read a note that was attached to the baby’s clipboard and obtained by ABC affiliate WJRT in Flint, Mich. This followed a staff meeting and a call to the nurse’s home to inform her of the decision, according to the complaint.
 
A hospital lawyer eventually told the staff this was illegal, but the lawsuit alleges that black nurses were intentionally not assigned to the baby for the remainder of its stay in the hospital over the next month.
The hospital CEO spoke at a news conference on Tuesday after the local chapter of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network held a press conference at the hospital to demand answers.
 
“The father was informed that his request could not be granted, and as a result, all nurses remained available to care for his baby,” Hurley CEO Melany Gavulic said, according to WJRT. “We appreciate the community’s concern and involvement today, as we publicly clarify the facts of this case. The medical center looks forward to a quick and amicable resolution.”
The nurse had been employed at Hurley for 25 years. She is seeking damages for her distress, harassment and humiliation.
“She’s going to win this lawsuit. The real question is what’s it worth,” local attorney Tom Pabst told ABC12 last week. He is not involved in the lawsuit. “If you grant such a request, you’re engaging in unlawful conduct.”

[Oldshooter]

Can't imagine any nurse black, white, or whatever mistreating a child after the taking the trouble to learn and pass the criteria needed to be a nurse in the first place. Who's to say that a white or hispanic nurse might not harm the child. Sounds like racism to me, and the staff that posted that note is liable, from my limited legal experience. 
 
If you dont want blacks treating your child leave em in da trailer park to die. Or take em to the all white nurse hospital in your KKK compound. 

[lakota]

Were the nurses denied jobs or pay because of the baby's jackass daddy? If not then I fail to see where the discrimination or violation of civil rights occured. The hospital was probably was doing the black nurses a favor by keeping them away from this racist. I guess the offense that was suffered can only be cured by a six figure settlement

[ChungDoQuan]

It's a non-issue. The father's request is just that--- a request. Ain't gonna happen. The hospital makes the room and patient assignments. Period. Efforts will be made to honor reasonable requests, but you still have to take what you get. And, unless they sue on the grounds that the father is doing business with the hospital, an individual CAN be racist, misogynist, etc. I can't figure out why the RNs would sue the hospital, unless it was for posting the note in the first place.

[Ranger99]

who can i sue?


i feel slightly distressed.
i was humiliated once.
i've been harassed before.

[351 power]

real problem is that the fool is reproducing

[ChungDoQuan]

real problem is that the fool is reproducing

+1!

[BBF]

After reading this I was thinking"What would have happened if the note requested No White nursing staff??"

[351 power]

same thing still crap

[Swampman]

After reading this I was thinking"What would have happened if the note requested No White nuring staff??"

Nothing.....

[Victor3]

 Dad told me I was lucky that any nurse got near me in the hospital. His buddy he brought to see me behind the glass said, "well, at least it's human."

[yellowtail3]

real problem is that the fool is reproducing

Yeah, well... that was a nasty note. Perhaps the baby'd Daddy was a klukker, and afraid his child would catch african cooties, or something...

[gypsyman]

Wonder what might happen if it would have said, No Muslim nurses,or Jewish nurses, or Catholic/Christion nurses! Guy pretty much sounds like an idiot. Lots of people to hate out there, black nurses aren't one of them. gypsyman

[Couger]

After reading this I was thinking"What would have happened if the note requested No White nursing staff??"

Spot on BFF!
 
 
of course there are those who never would ever don't think 'reverse-discrimination' could take place! 
 
The dad may be a dunce.  Oh well!     
 
 

[Oldshooter]

After reading this I was thinking"What would have happened if the note requested No White nursing staff??"

Spot on BFF!
 
 
of course there are those who never would ever don't think 'reverse-discrimination' could take place! 
 
The dad may be a dunce.  Oh well!     

Someone might sue or raise cain but we would never see it in the media, the fourth branch of US government.

[Couger]

 
"the fourth branch of gubmnt!!??"
 
At this point the lame-stream meedja are AWOL quislings for
the chicagoland THUG who occupies the white house!   
 
'hussain' wouldn't get away with his agenda if the meedja DID THEIR JOB!

[BBF]

You would think the Media would know better. There are enough examples in history what happens to Media of any type when you have a Dictatorship/Communist type of Govt.