Health care workers who cover up patient abuse face stiffer penalties under new law
The legislation, spurred by a news investigation, allows workers to be barred from health care jobs for obstructing investigations into staff misconduct
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The legislation, spurred by a news investigation, allows workers to be barred from health care jobs for obstructing investigations into staff misconduct
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation allowing workers to be barred from health care jobs if they obstruct investigations into abuse and misconduct.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation allowing workers to be barred from health care jobs if they obstruct investigations into abuse and misconduct.
The bill would prohibit health care workers who have been the subject of a substantiated claim of “material obstruction” of an abuse investigation from further employment in the health care field.
Individuals with substantiated complaints would be barred from employment in health care