GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The main hospital in Grand Island sometimes has to turn patients away because it doesn’t have enough nurses available to care for them.

CHI Health St. Francis occasionally runs into problems if several nurses are out sick or on maternity leave at the same time.

The hospital works to maintain adequate nursing staff, and it has a program to help train nurses.

But Beth Bartlett with CHI Health St. Francis says the hospital wants to make sure it can provide adequate care.