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Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Michael Hiltzik interviews suspended 121RN member

April 17, 2020

Los Angeles Times business reporter interviewed member Jhonna Porter, RN, of West Hills Hospital:

Nurses know we were unprepared for the coronavirus. They’re being punished for speaking out.

Excerpt:

Other nurses and some physicians have also been disciplined for posting public complaints about the lack of preparedness at their hospitals. Jhonna Porter, a supervising nurse in the COVID-19 ward at HCA Healthcare’s West Hills Hospital, was suspended on March 23 after she posted an alert to a private nurses’ Facebook group about inadequate supplies and asked for community donations for herself and colleagues in her unit.

Read the full article here: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-17/nurses-front-lines-punished