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Archive Home > 2005 > May > 09 > Hospitals feel effects of too few nurses

Hospitals feel effects of too few nurses

Bend facility has 90 positions open

By Kayley Mendenhall / The Bulletin
May 9, 2005

The nurse staffing situation at St. Charles Medical Center-Bend is not ideal, said Shelley Lewis-Leander, chairwoman of the local nurses association.

But, she said, it could be much worse.

"There is definitely a nursing shortage," said Lewis-Leander, an emergency-room nurse at St.....

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