Contrast this with other area hospitals that made way for employees to stay at the hospital ~ very common during these storms.
BTW, the story is this hospital never informed anyone but the doctors of the special hotel rates so nurses who stayed over actually slept on tiled cement floors.
The depth of the snow throughout the Metro area varied from 28" to 48" (by the time the last storm rolled through). We didn't get dug out around here for two weeks and then it took a large Komatsu frontloader (with a thousand horse engine on the back).
Same with parts of Montgomery county, and the residential areas of DC. Many residential streets simply never got dug out.
Like to point out something very important here, residents of DC pay an income tax. They also pay (directly or indirectly through landlords) substantial property taxes. It's the taxpayers money that's used to clear the roads.
In order of priority the DC government cleared the interstates, then the main roads around Capitol Hill (for Nancy Pelosi), then the main roads around the White House and Smithsonian.
Then they began working on the primaries where you find such places as Washington Hospital Center (WHC).
WHC is a nonprofit private foundation. IT PAYS NO TAXES OF ANY KIND.
See where I'm going. WHC, complaining about how its employees got to work, was dug out two weeks before they were! Yet, they paid nothing.
From the standpoint of fundamental equity and fairness (even Republican fairness if you will), WHC doesn't have a leg to stand on. They paid nothing to get dug out yet their employees paid to do that even when they got no service at all for their taxes.
In the future it'd be better to LEAVE WHC piled to the ying-yang with snow and ice and dig out the taxpayers!
Oh, my the times have changed! Used to be participants on this forum were curious and skeptical about "factual" reports in the Washington Post.
An enterprising soul may try to find out the following:
1. How much money did the hospital spend on transportation of staff to work?
2. How much money did the hospital spend on snow clearance activities?
3. Why does one of our heroes give conflicting accounts to Fox 5 News and the WaPo?
4. Why were only a handful of employees terminated out of 700+ who failed to report as scheduled?
5. Why does the Post quote a union official regarding the performance evaluation of one affected employee, and how does that official have access to private information not distributed to either the union or the public?
I'd like to give you the short answer: this isn't a story. It's sensationalistic BS, and many of you are idiots for falling for it.