Spokesperson Confirms Nurse Who Stapled Ivermectin Info to Discharge Papers No Longer Employed by Confluence Health
And a brief look at an interesting exchange that came from looking into this
Confluence Health confirmed Friday, Feb. 4 that the nurse who was caught stapling directions on how to find and use Ivermectin to Covid-19 patient discharge papers in Oct. 2021 is no longer employed at Wenatchee Valley Hospital & Clinic.
Katie Grove, Confluence Health’s new marketing and communications manager reached out to me on Friday and asked me to email her about the incident.
So a few hours later I sent her this email:
“Hi Katharine,
Thank you for reaching out. I’d like any more info Confluence can provide on this story, especially confirmation if the nurse is still employed by Confluence. I’d also like the name, not to publish it, but rather to file a records request with the state department of health to see if there’s anything else.
Do you know if this incident was reported to the state, and/or if there was an investigation of this incident, either by Confluence or outside investigators?
Thank you for your time!”
Grove got back to me promptly. While Confluence declined to provide information about the nurse’s identity or if there was an investigation regarding the matter, she did confirm the nurse is no longer a Confluence Health employee.
“Hello Dominick,
Thank you for your quick response. I think it is crucial to have a line of communication with all journalists in our community. While we are unable to comment on specifics, such as the identity of this individual, including whether a claim was filed, we are able to assure the community that once alerted to the situation, we followed our process and moved to address this concern. This individual no longer works at Confluence Health.
Thank you for making contact and giving us an opportunity to comment,” Grove wrote.
I’m glad to have the issue of whether or not this nurse was still employed by Confluence settled. And I did not expect Confluence to provide the name of the individual, but there is more than one way to skin a cat as my grandfather says.
Since publishing my first article about that nurse I have had a few people reach out. A couple didn’t seem legit and one was definitely a troll, but one or two people had some quality information. It’s enough to allow me to continue digging on this angle of the story and perhaps confirm or dismiss if there is any connection to Grace City Church.
One source with a tip about who the nurse might be sent me in the direction of a local woman who was at the Capitol Riots on Jan. 6, 2021. She confirmed that she was once a nurse, but told me she would never work for Confluence Health. I ruled her out as a candidate for the Ivermectin stapler pretty quickly, but we had an interesting conversation about Jan. 6 and her experiences in Washington DC that day.
I tried reaching out a few ways, and in a few hours she responded to a Facebook message I sent. It was a pleasant surprise and initially things started off a little rocky, but we ended up having a pretty cordial conversation, all things considered.
Here are a couple snapshots:
In social media posts in the days after Jan. 6, 2021, this woman wrote “I was on the second floor” at the Capitol.
“I have video of the lady who got shot while I was out there. The ‘unarmed’ cops shot that woman and she had no weapons on her!,” she wrote in a social media post in Jan, 2021.
Later in our conversation she said that upon further review she doesn’t believe it was Ashli Babbitt in the video she recorded.
It was a fascinating Q&A that I will write more on in the future. But, like I said, I do not believe this is connected to the Ivermectin-stapling nurse who was fired by Confluence.
It’s simply an interesting conversation that localizes Jan. 6 for the residents of North Central Washington – bigly.