Safety Reports: West Hills Hospital and Medical Center, 7300 Medical Center Dr., WEST HILLS, CA, 91307, USA
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Employer failed to adhere to health and safety regulations mandating protective measures and plans. ER failed to maintain and supply adequate PPE. Employer failed to provide adequate staff and staffing rations creating unsafe working conditions and inability to monitor and ensure other staff donning and doffing of…
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California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Section 5120(c)(5)(C). Health Care Worker Back and Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention. There is no lift equipment or other trained staff available to assist a nurses in pulling up patients in bed, or transferring patients to another bed or chair. California Code of…
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Understaffed in the Covid floor, not getting breaks, not able to follow proper PPE protocols, exposing negative patients to Covid positive floors.
Alleged Hazards: 2, Employees Exposed: 1
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-09-16
Alleged Hazards: 2, Employees Exposed: 1
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-09-16
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The hospital did not provide adequate staff to monitor other staff donning of PPE. The staff of the Telemetry Unit had an inadequate and insufficient supply of PPE. A code blue was initiated on a COVID positive patient. There was insufficient PPE available for the staff and…
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The hospital failed to follow the ATD standard. Complainant was assigned a COVID-19 positive patient in the Emergency Department that did not go through the normal ER admission Process, not informed of COVID positive status, and not informed that patient was in respiratory distress while also being…
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Hospital management failed to follow ATD standards by allowing a COVID positive patient in the Emergency Department wander the ER hallways without being placed in an isolation room. This exposed other patients and staff to COVID.
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-10-16
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-10-16
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