Chaplain fired from hospital for being in National Guard?

Military chaplain sues hospital over firing

The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Mar 8, 2008 14:31:32 EST

SEATTLE — A Kirkland, Wash., woman is suing Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, accusing the hospital of firing her because she was about to be deployed to Iraq as a military chaplain.

Court documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle say Kelly Hansen was fired by the hospital after spending a long weekend with the National Guard in January. She has a master’s degree in divinity from Princeton University and was working as a chaplain at the hospital.

She says her supervisor told her, when she returned to work, that they felt the hospital wasn’t a good fit for her. They said she would be happier in the National Guard or at the veteran’s hospital.

Children’s Hospital told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Friday that its dismissal of Hansen had nothing to do with her obligations to the Guard.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/03/ap_chaplainlawsuit_030808/