![]() Management has informed nurses from the units slated for closure, that they will have the opportunity to work in other units of the hospital.Īccording to nurses, when Steward Health purchased Florida Medical Center in 2021, the company promised to improve patients’ well-being and involve the community in decision making. The in-patient mental health unit currently serves 48 patients. Psychiatric patients will not be allowed to access services in the regular emergency department and there is no contingency plan in place. After this date patients needing acute psychiatric care, including those transported to the hospital by law enforcement, will be turned away. Management announced to nurses that they plan to stop accepting psychiatric admissions on August 15, and will shut down the psychiatric emergency department August 31. Where: Florida Medical Center, 5000 West Oakland Park Blvd., Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.What: Press conference to protest proposed service shut down.Who: RNs at Steward Health’s Florida Medical Center.We are stunned that Steward Health Care is ordering this shut down at Florida Medical Center.” “If this closure goes through, our patients will definitely be at great risk of suicide and self-harm. They don’t have transportation and are in no condition to travel long distances to seek care,” said Gladys Emekekwue, a registered nurse who works in the psychiatric emergency and in-patient mental health units. There are no other options for our patients. “I have worked in these units for 16 years and the need for psychiatric services has never been this high. 12, to protest the hospital’s sudden announcement last week that they intend to shut down the psychiatric emergency and in-patient mental health units at the end of August, announced National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) today. ![]() Registered nurses at Steward Health Care-owned, Florida Medical Center, in Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. ![]()
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