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The St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood will no longer ask nurses who have tested positive for COVID to return to work, representative Nannette Barragán said Wednesday.
Staff at the medical center protested this Wednesday morning against the instruction issued on January 8, issued by the California Department of Public Health, whose instruction allowed acute care hospitals, psychiatric hospitals and skilled nursing facilities to have their health care workers will return to work without being tested or going through an isolation stage after receiving a positive COVID test result or after having been in contact with the infected .
The employees of the St. Francis Medical Center protested because this instruction put patients and staff at risk by allowing tir that asymptomatic caregivers will work in the hospital despite testing positive for COVID.
The protest was held at noon this Wednesday as a warning to its patients that St. Francis had the practice of putting pressure on their employees who have tested positive for COVID to return to work.
Most hospitals in California did not follow the instructions of the state Department of Health , extent Lynwood Medical Center complied.
The CDPH instruction does not bind hospital employees, who are allowed to maintain stricter precautions, such as the requirement to obtain a negative test result before a health care worker return to work if they previously tested positive for COVID or were exposed to the virus.
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