(DETROIT) - Sixty-six Nurse Anesthetists will be walking out of two St. John Providence Hospitals in Detroit tonight (Thursday, December 31st) at midnight.

Known on Twitter as the #Michigan68 – the Nurse Anesthetists are taking a very strong stand that’s being watched around metro Detroit and the Nation.

They are the Highly-Skilled Nurse Anesthetists who are hands on during surgery, on the job 24-7 at St. John Novi and at Providence Hospital in Southfield.

Sixty-six of the 68 are saying no to working for a brand new outsourced company formed by a local doctor, Dominick Lago - an anesthesiologist.

They say Lago has not given them all the information they need to make an informed decision.

The hospital says they are done as of midnight tonight.

One of the Nurse Anesthetists is a new mom, who was supposed to have her baby in a couple of weeks, but induced labor to have it now because she also loses her benefits at midnight.

St. John Providence has refused to take any questions in this bitter dispute.  Officials put out another statement saying this will not affect operations, but now everyone’s asking how do they instantly fill 66 highly skilled, critical positions in surgery?

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