The departure comes weeks after a former nurse filed complaints alleging she’d been retaliated against and fired for blowing the whistle on workplace safety and patient care.
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A nurse says she was fired from Ketchikan’s hospital for reporting safety and patient care concerns
The nurse says she was fired four days after filing an internal ethics complaint on the hospital’s anonymous tip line.
A Ketchikan City Council member was hit by a police car in 2019. Now he’s suing the city
Council member Sam Bergeron was walking home with his wife Linda Millard on Valentine’s Day when Officer Bryan Perez hit them with his police cruiser.
NOAA breaks ground on upgraded port facility in Ketchikan to host research vessel Fairweather
A long-sought revitalization of a NOAA facility in Ketchikan is officially underway.
Ketchikan High School closes after reporting COVID-19 cases; charter school sends upper grades home
The Ketchikan High School principal sent an email to parents Monday morning saying that more COVID-19 cases had been discovered and that students would be sent home immediately. The principal of Ketchikan Charter said the school was notified early Monday morning that someone associated with the school had tested positive over the weekend.
10 more COVID-19 cases reported in prisons across Alaska
The total number of infections now is under half of the total cases reported in the state’s corrections system earlier this month.