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Former Huntington Memorial Nurses File Suit Alleging Discrimination and Retaliation
News Dec 17, 2018
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Former L&D nurses will voice their concerns surrounding the allegations in their respective complaints. – Courtesy photo / Facebook, @HuntingtonMemorialHospital
Former Labor and Delivery (L&D) Department nurses of Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, Martha Beltran and Veronica Loving filed a suit against the hospital alleging discrimination and retaliation. According to attorneys for the women, after the L&D department hired two new supervisors, Black and Latina nurses and a Black doctor began to experience discrimination by being: singled out, targeted, harassed, provided poor performance evaluations, removed from advisory boards and not selected for promotions. So far, 13 nurses have signed a letter lodging an internal complaint of discrimination with the hospital. According to these attorneys, no investigation has been conducted yet.
Beltran was fired after over 30 years of employment, during which she put herself through school and worked her way from housekeeper to charge nurse. After nearly a decade of employment and after following up on the group’s racial complaints, Loving was fired two months later.
A press conference is being held on Thursday, Dec. 20 at the law offices of Hilaire McGriff, PC where Beltran and Loving will voice their concerns surrounding the allegations in their respective complaints.
At least two other nurses that worked with Beltran and Loving have current cases pending with the EEOC against the hospital. These claims follow the allegations of 20 women that allege Huntington ratified the conduct of a prominent obstetrician of mistreating them.
