Hospital staff want ICE out of hospitals: 'It is a threat to public health'

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4. If hospital admins will back the staff and patients...

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The nurses say they want, at the very least, hospital administrators or Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, which owns the hospital, to clarify what the policies and procedures are for ICE agents, especially when there’s a disagreement between the agents and the frontline care staff.

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“We also provide ongoing guidance and training for our employees on patient rights [and] privacy,” the statement added.

But the nurse who spoke to KUOW on condition of anonymity said she’s received no response to her multiple requests for protocols and guidance from St. Joseph’s administrators.

“We have a policy for everything, but they refuse to put anything out on this,” she said. “They won’t even acknowledge it.”

… Catholic hospital …)