Issues With Ebola

Employment and Labor laws are in effect for all working employees and employers’. These laws set in place protect against discrimination, retirement and health benefits, workers comp and working condition laws, safety and health standards, wages and hours worked, equal opportunity in employment, and many more. When employees feel that these laws and their rights as a working American are violated or over looked they take their complaints to court and sue their employer or organization they work for. In Colorado Springs, Colorado, Many former employees of Memorial Hospital filed a law suit against the hospital for disagreements over retirement benefits. The Retirement Benefits law ensures financial security to support a person who has left …show more content…
Dallas, Texas was the first hospital in America to treat a patient with Ebola. With a full critical medical staff the hospital was unable to save the patient’s life from this disease. During this time Nina Pham, a nurse from Texas Health Presbyterian contracted the deadly disease and later filed a law suit against the hospital for unsafe working conditions, HIPPA violations and emotional and life damages. The lawsuit states that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital neglected her and other staff member’s safety during the care for the patient infected with Ebola. Nina states that the hospital did not protect and equip the medical staff with appropriate personal protective equipment and did not inform the CDC that they were in no way capable of handling a public emergency this big. Nina is also suing the hospital for HIPPA violations saying that she did not release her medical records and they should have never been shared. Lastly, Nina Pham is suing for emotional and life damages, saying she has the stigma to her name as the “Ebola Nurse”. Nina also feels that her life and career has been damaged because of this scare and that she is hesitant to returning to the medical field to further her education and career. Texas Health Presbyterian could have avoided this lawsuit in many ways. First, the individual responsible for running the Ebola crisis should have provided the correct protective equipment to their medical staff, ensuring that there was no possible way a team member could have came into contact while treating their patient. Next, the hospital should have never shared Nina’s personal medical record without written and documented consent from