Case 2: 10 Filipino Nurses, Healers in Trouble
By JOSEPH BERGER
Published: The New York Times, January 27, 2008
Published: The New York Times, January 27, 2008
"The 10 nurses are under indictment in Suffolk County on charges of endangering the welfare of five chronically ill children and one terminally ill man. They are accused of walking off their jobs at the Avalon Gardens Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Smithtown in April 2006 without providing sufficient notice for the nursing home to replace them on coming shifts.
Although their resignations were prompted by a seemingly commonplace dispute with their employers over what the nurses say were broken promises and shabby working conditions involving a total of 26 Filipino nurses and a physical therapist, the 10 defendants could each be sentenced to a year in jail and lose their nursing licenses. Their trial was scheduled to start Monday, but it appears that it will be put off until March.
The district attorney’s office conceded that the patients suffered no harm, and acknowledged that it could not recall a similar prosecution against nurses in the state. ............"
The district attorney’s office conceded that the patients suffered no harm, and acknowledged that it could not recall a similar prosecution against nurses in the state. ............"