Alexis Krell: Ex-safety manager sues MultiCare, alleges wrongful termination for reporting hazards
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 12/20/2020 Alexis Krell, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Dec. 20 A former safety manager has sued MultiCare, alleging that the health system retaliated against him for whistleblower complaints he filed.
Christopher LaDue s lawsuit, filed earlier this month in Pierce County Superior Court, names MultiCare and The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
He accused MultiCare of failing to address his concerns, and The Joint Commission of making it obvious that he was the whistleblower. While employed at MultiCare as the Manager of Safety and Environment of Care, Mr. LaDue tried to address unsafe and unsanitary conditions that existed at many of MultiCare s locations, his attorney Kristi Favard said in a statement. MultiCare s management was aware of, and acknowledged, the risks to the public these conditio
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FILE â Alex Rank, a patient service coordinator with Signal Health, seals a patientâs sample Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2020, at a COVID-19 community testing site in the parking lot of the State Fair Park in Yakima, Wash.
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They include the Providence hospitals in Spokane, overseen by Elaine Couture.
“I don’t know if the vaccine is actually here right at the moment, but it is expected in Spokane at Sacred Heart today, she said. Our plans are to start the vaccination process with those people that are the high risk for our health care workers beginning on Monday.”
Other hospitals will begin immunizing people later this week. For example, Confluence Health in Chelan County, plans to start giving shots on Thursday.
At MultiCare’s facilities in Pierce County, health care workers are receiving training today [Monday] on the specifics of administering this vaccine. MultiCare’s safety and nursing officer, June Alteras, says pharmacists are learning how to mix the doses and nurses are hearing about the specifics of administering them.
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SEATTLE The first 3,900 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Seattle Monday morning, the first of thousands of doses on the way to our state as we hope to turn the corner against the raging pandemic.
Four boxes of the recently-approved Pfizer vaccine arrived packed in dry ice at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
Each box carries 195 vials; each vial contains enough vaccine for five doses for a total of 975 doses per box. So we re going to take one box out and it s going to go here (at University of Washington Medical Center) and it s going to be loaded into our ultra cold freezer, said Steve Fijalka, UW Medical Center Chief Pharmacy Officer, as they opened their inaugural vaccine shipment in front of news cameras and carefully placed the box inside the freezer at -78 degrees C. Then we re going to go deliver to our other three hospital sites: