Providence wants the community to believe that closure of their adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit will not negatively impact the community and patients they once served. This is simply not true.
Providence is closing inpatient psychiatric unit for adolescents Sept. 7. Providence’s closure of the unit leaves Eastern Washington with little care and didn’t need to happen, nurses and techs/service and maintenance workers say.
Rustan is a second-year doctoral candidate in the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program at the University of Washington and president of the Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization
After 5 months of contract negotiations, the nurses at Skagit Valley Hospital spoke at the Board of Commissioners meeting and delivered a letter demanding fair and equitable pay.