Alva Review-Courier -

Most of the Kiowa District Hospital nursing staff filled a row of chairs at the March board meeting held in the clinic lobby last Thursday night. Their spokesperson was Sharon Kimmel, RN. She said the nursing staff was there to register a formal grievance regarding holiday pay and handed them a letter.

Kathryn Winters, RN, read the letter aloud at the meeting. The letter explained in part that “The grievance is that a new holiday pay policy was recently implemented which only impacts the hospital nursing staff, but we were not informed in any formal way but rather had to hear it through `the g...