Covid-19 OSHA Complaint, Regency at Whitmore Lake, 8633 Main St, WHITMORE LAKE, MI, 48189, USA
2 years ago
1. Exposure to COVID positive staff and residents, due to failure to follow infection control protocol, over 20 staff infected. 2. COVID positive test results withheld 10 days from staff and continuing to make them work, stating they are past their 10 days post test date, but
notified staff of results 10 days after lab notification. 3. Forcing staff to work COVID positive residents with just a surgical mask. 4. We are just now after a few weeks of having COVID in building, fitting for respirator masks, most staff failing test. 5. Over 60% of building COVID positive not including staff. 6. Careless mistake of moving a few residents who were COVID negative to the COVID positive lockdown and then residents contracted COVID and fell ill, coverups by management. 7. Working 1 nurse and 1 CNA on COVID positive lockdown units with 20-30 COVID positive symptomatic ill residents. 8. Threatening staff they will be fired if they do not do as told, while staff is being exposed everyday. 9. Management will not step foot in COVID lockdown, trying to force LPNs to start IVs, does not want us to send ill residents out to hospital but we have no proper tools to care for their symptoms of distress. 10. Management breaking isolation protocol by pulling workers off COVID positive units to work COVID negative, exposing staff and residents. 11. Two nurses on night shift in building, forced to work 2 COVID lockdown halls with 1 nurse and 0-1 aide. 12. We are terrified but obligated to work or loose our job and harassed that bad reference given to next job.
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-12-03
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-12-03
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