🍼 Nurse claims wrongful termination after baby mix-up ⚖️ Lawsuit filed over controversial breastfeeding incident 📋 Hospital response under scrutiny in South Jersey case
VOORHEES — A South Jersey nurse is suing the hospital where she worked, saying she was unfairly fired and made a scapegoat for a “baby swap” situation that happened over the summer.
Joyce Fisher, of Clayton, reported to work on July 5 at Virtua Health hospital in Voorhees and found that two newborns had accidentally been brought to the wrong patient rooms, and each breastfed by a stranger.
Fisher was just starting her workday at 7 a.m. and came into the situation involving new moms in rooms 444 and 447, following an overnight nurse’s actions, according to the complaint filed in late August in Camden County Superior Court…