The Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan, has finally settled a lawsuit they faced over a discriminatory case. One of their black nurses wasn’t allowed to work on a white child patient at the compliance of the hospital and request of the patients father.

Clearly, the father of the young child is as racist as they come, but the issue the hospital is having is compliance with the request in the first place. There is no way in the world they should have honored this request, nor put a note into the patients file. If the father didn’t want any black or African American nurses to work on his child, then he should have kept the child home and tended to them himself.

From the Fox News Detroit: The nurse, Tonya Battle, was caring for an infant patient last fall in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Battle says the patient’s father requested that no African Americans care for his child – and pulled up his sleave showing a tattoo believed to be a swastika. Battle, who is black, says the patient’s file then had a note that read, “No African American nurse to take care of baby.”Battle says she and all other black nurses were no longer assigned to the child’s care. Two other nurses who were unable to provide care took legal action as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Clearly, this is an unusual case, but there have been some positives that come out of it as a result. Since the EEOC stepped in and settled this case, they have made the hospital pledge to educate their staff on diversity training. As mentioned above, no one on the staff should have obliged such a crude request, nor put any records in the file stating no African American nurses should work on this case.

In addition. the hospital is pledging to education young teens in the area interested in the medical field and provide scholarships for this aim to be issued through the local chapter of the NAACP.

Tonya Battle is still working in the neonatal unit of the hospital. She has been working at the hospital for over 25 years.

The financial settlement was not disclosed.

Source: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/23542738/settlement-in-no-african-american-nurse-case#ixzz2gDQKgo9L