“A Michigan hospital is facing a lawsuit filed by one of its own nurses today in what sounds like a troubling cases of racism compounded by ineptitude. Tonya Battle says the father of a patient in the neonatal intensive care unit demanded “no black nurses” treat his baby at the Hurley Medical Center. Sick?
It gets worse. Battle’s lawsuit alleges the facility took the racist man’s side.
The lawsuit claims a note was posted advising “No African American nurse to take care of baby,” and the baby was reassigned to another nurse. Battle says she was also reassigned to another patient, and nurses of color were kept from the baby for a month-long stay.
That was October. Now here we are in February, and Battle isn’t suing to have access to the baby. She’s suing for punitive damages for “emotional stress, mental anguish, humiliation and damage to her reputation.””
- Racist Dad’s ‘No Black Nurses’ Request for Baby Gets Hospital Sued | The Stir
It gets worse. Battle’s lawsuit alleges the facility took the racist man’s side.
The lawsuit claims a note was posted advising “No African American nurse to take care of baby,” and the baby was reassigned to another nurse. Battle says she was also reassigned to another patient, and nurses of color were kept from the baby for a month-long stay.
That was October. Now here we are in February, and Battle isn’t suing to have access to the baby. She’s suing for punitive damages for “emotional stress, mental anguish, humiliation and damage to her reputation.””
- Racist Dad’s ‘No Black Nurses’ Request for Baby Gets Hospital Sued | The Stir