NCRHA denies claims over nurse resignations at Mt Hope

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has de­nied claims cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia re­gard­ing the res­ig­na­tion of three reg­is­tered nurs­es em­ployed by the au­thor­i­ty.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued on Fri­day, the NCRHA said the claims were false and mis­lead­ing and re­ject­ed sug­ges­tions that the nurs­es were con­nect­ed to the re­cent­ly opened Adult Med­ical Ward at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC).

The au­thor­i­ty said none of the nurs­es ref­er­enced in the claims were as­signed to or worked at the ward.

It al­so stat­ed that the res­ig­na­tions were not linked to the op­er­a­tions or con­di­tions at the fa­cil­i­ty.

Ac­cord­ing to the NCRHA, the nurs­es re­signed be­cause of per­son­al cir­cum­stances, em­ploy­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties with­in an­oth­er Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty clos­er to their homes, and de­ci­sions to pur­sue fur­ther aca­d­e­m­ic stud­ies.

The au­thor­i­ty said in­for­ma­tion be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed on­line sought to cre­ate alarm and mis­trust among staff and mem­bers of the pub­lic.

The NCRHA al­so con­demned what it de­scribed as the spread of mis­in­for­ma­tion sur­round­ing the mat­ter.

The au­thor­i­ty said it re­mained com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing health­care ser­vices and main­tain­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion with staff and the pub­lic.

The state­ment fol­lows dis­cus­sion on so­cial me­dia con­cern­ing staffing at the EWM­SC and claims that nurs­es had re­signed be­cause of is­sues re­lat­ed to the Adult Med­ical Ward.

The NCRHA did not iden­ti­fy the nurs­es in­volved or state when the res­ig­na­tions took ef­fect.

The au­thor­i­ty urged the pub­lic to avoid spread­ing in­ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion and to re­ly on of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion re­gard­ing mat­ters in­volv­ing the re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ty.