The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance is having success retaining employees with the rare luxury of both its emergency departments being fully staff with nurses.

Health alliance CEO and president Adam Topp told local media Monday the employee vacancy rate sits at just 1.5 per cent across the organization.

“It was 3.5 per cent a year ago, so it’s come down quite a bit over the last year,” he said.

“Our emergency department still had about an 18 per cent vacancy last year at this time for nurses,” Topp said.

“Right now, it’s zero per cent. There’s no empty positions in our emergency department at either site (in Chatham and Wallaceburg),” he added.

Having ERs fully staffed with nurses is a rarity, said health alliance chief human resources officer Justin Turkington. “We haven’t seen that in

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