“When we go to work and we’re short and it’s a bad day, somebody died when they didn’t have to,” Sara Morgan Bergenholtz said. "That's why people are leaving.”
The attorney representing the 94 plaintiffs filed a motion last Thursday, saying Judge Brian Huber dismissed the case without considering Confluence Health's failure to accommodate their religious practices.
Hospitals nationwide have been facing a similar issue of overcrowding, with patients experiencing influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and other respiratory infections surging in recent weeks.