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TexasTowelie

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Sun Dec 20, 2020, 07:29 AM Dec 2020

COVID-19 outbreak among staff, patients at Puyallup hospital. Union files complaint

MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup is the latest hospital to face a series of COVID-19 cases among staff that started with a patient testing positive.

MultiCare says it cannot link the staff cases together because of the rate of spread in the community at large.

A union representing workers at the hospital is pushing back against that assessment and what it says was delayed notification to workers.

The current third surge in coronavirus cases across the state and nation has invaded different hospitals in the area in recent months in both the CHI Franciscan and MultiCare systems, including St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, St. Anthony in Gig Harbor and Auburn Medical Center in Auburn.

Read more: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/coronavirus/article247835240.html
(Tacoma News Tribune)

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