SAN DIEGO - Cal-OSHA is investigating a complaint from nurses who work in Merrithew Memorial Hospital's acute psychiatric I-ward, one of two locked units that house Contra Costa County's most violent mentally ill patients. Nurses in that ward at the sprawling Martinez facility are demanding protection; they claim their numerous requests for a safer work environment have gone unheard by the hospital's administrators.Nurses in the other locked ward, the J-ward, obtained a court order for a 24-hour u
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