Hospital Closes for Thanksgiving Weekend. Doctors and Nurses Rejoice!

Denver, CO -- The parking lot was empty at Piedmont Hospital today after security locked the doors, turned off the lights and erected 'No Smoking or Trespassing' signs throughout the campus.   Administrators made good on their promise to close the hospital for the extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend allowing all doctors and nurses a rare vacation at home with their families, a strategy in direct competition with Black Friday Hospital Deals. The idea was born after Nurse Jenny, a new graduate who was upset nobody ever told her before she went to nursing school that she'd have to work most holidays for the rest of her life,  half-heartedly put the idea in the Suggestion Box last year.ICU cleared out with patient-family-centric policy"The suggestion box is a joke.  I was shocked when Jenny's idea became a law.  Every year I ask for a raise, better staffing and a Hoyer lift that can handle more than 400 pounds and I get nothing.  But Jenny gets us a four day holiday weekend on her first try?" said a veteran nurse who hasn't seen a suggestion implemented from the box since 1986's  idea to not have to stand up when a doctor entered the room.The 400-bed level one trauma center became the first hospital in the country to trial the four day Thanksgiving holiday closure. Preparations began last week when the emergency department went on diversion for all ambulances and walk-ins."Whenever an ambulance would call requesting transport to our ER, we'd tell t...
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