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Hospital investigates discrimination charge
Healthcare Security Weekly, March 19, 2007
A gay couple complained of discrimination to officials at San Joaquin Community Hospital in Bakersfield, CA, after a security guard kept one of the partners from the emergency room.
Hospital officials are investigating why one of the women was kept out of the ER while her partner's biological daughter was treated for a fever, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The two women, who are registered domestic partners, took their daughter to the ER with a 104-degree fever. They complained after a security guard made the partner stay in the waiting room but allowed other couples to enter the emergency room.
Hospital officials told the AP that the guard kept the woman out of the ER because of crowding concerns.
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