Last November, 97 per cent of nurses at the Thompson General Hospital voted to have the facility grey-listed.

The nurses had made a list of 13 recommendations to the Northern Health Region in advance of the vote, mainly focused on safety issues at the hospital.

The request for limited public access points and screening were acted on in December.

New facility access protocols include after-hours screening and restricting access to the facility to one monitored entrance during the hours of 7 pm to 6 am.

According to a Northern Health Region spokesperson, it has also successfully hired 4 Institutional Safety Officers.   They are currently in the last phase of their training, and are expected to start shifts on site at the Thompson General Hospital in March.

The Manitoba Nurses Union says it will take more action from the Northern Health Region to remove their grey-listed status.