‘Punch in the gut’: Nurses at Beacon Kalamazoo hospital struggle under new, limited health benefits

Nurse leaders of the MNA union at Beacon Kalamazoo, including Lori Batzloff at far right. | Photo provided by Michigan Nurses Association

After Beacon, a chain of hospitals based out of northern Indiana, bought four Ascension Borgess hospitals in southwest Michigan in July, nurses at Beacon Kalamazoo hospital say that the new health insurance offered to them is not meeting their needs.

“Beacon has really let us down with the ability to care for ourselves as nurses,” said Lori Batzloff, the president of the local nurses union…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS