A former Riverside University Hospital Behavioral Health nurse announced Dec. 4 that he intends to sue Riverside County on allegations of discrimination, retaliation and harassment.
James Cook, who joined the hospital system in 2001 as a nurse and worked his way up to management, said he supervised 56 beds at the County’s Arlington campus. He claims that he suffered from racial harassment due to being Black and that he was fired without proper cause Sept. 28 after filing a formal complaint against a supervisor.
“I spent 30 years trying to be the best nurse and nurse manager that I possibly could have been, and to have that taken away, it was like
