(TNS) A woman who filed a federal lawsuit accusing a Danville-based health system of denying her a promotion because of her gender and then firing her for complaining about it will be paid $335,000 under a settlement.

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Friday that Ephraim McDowell Health and Ephraim McDowell Medical Center had settled the lawsuit the EEOC filed in March 2024 on behalf of the employee, Shannon Long.

Long worked at Ephraim McDowell Fort Logan Hospital in Stanford, where she was director of the obstetrics department from 2008 to 2021, according to the suit.

After she expressed interest in applying for the hospital administrator’s position, the CEO of Ephraim McDowell told Long he wouldn’t choose her “because of her sex, based on his belief that m

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