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Nurses and advocates warn proposed jail nursing cuts would undermine custody health
Summary
Nurses, jail health staff and community groups told the committee that proposed budget changes that would reduce clinical nursing and management positions in custody health in favor of medical assistants and LVNs risked lowering care quality; custody-health leaders defended the staffing redesign and agreed to additional discussions and metrics.
Public commenters, frontline staff and union representatives told the Health & Hospital Committee that proposed staffing changes in custody health risked losing institutional knowledge and undermining care, while county leaders said the redesign aims to rebalance roles and improve urgent-care timeliness.
At the meeting, two current jail clinical staff and representatives of several county nursing organizations urged supervisors to rethink a proposal they described as eliminating many management and clinical nursing positions while adding medical assistants and licensed vocational nurses (LVNs). "If we make this…
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