thedrifter
03-09-08, 10:37 AM
Military chaplain sues hospital over firing
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Mar 8, 2008 14:31:32 EST
SEATTLE — A Kirkland, Wash., woman is suing Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, accusing the hospital of firing her because she was about to be deployed to Iraq as a military chaplain.
Court documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle say Kelly Hansen was fired by the hospital after spending a long weekend with the National Guard in January. She has a master’s degree in divinity from Princeton University and was working as a chaplain at the hospital.
She says her supervisor told her, when she returned to work, that they felt the hospital wasn’t a good fit for her. They said she would be happier in the National Guard or at the veteran’s hospital.
Children’s Hospital told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Friday that its dismissal of Hansen had nothing to do with her obligations to the Guard.
Ellie
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Mar 8, 2008 14:31:32 EST
SEATTLE — A Kirkland, Wash., woman is suing Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, accusing the hospital of firing her because she was about to be deployed to Iraq as a military chaplain.
Court documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle say Kelly Hansen was fired by the hospital after spending a long weekend with the National Guard in January. She has a master’s degree in divinity from Princeton University and was working as a chaplain at the hospital.
She says her supervisor told her, when she returned to work, that they felt the hospital wasn’t a good fit for her. They said she would be happier in the National Guard or at the veteran’s hospital.
Children’s Hospital told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Friday that its dismissal of Hansen had nothing to do with her obligations to the Guard.
Ellie