From Fox News: The owner of several Connecticut nursing homes is calling for a
criminal probe after union workers staged a mass walkout earlier this
month, allegedly vandalizing and sabotaging the health care facilities
in the process. Among the allegations is that the workers, supposedly
disgruntled over protracted labor talks, switched around the IDs of
Alzheimer's patients.
The alleged sabotage, which also purportedly included tampering with
medication records and removing patient identification bands, occurred
in three of the company’s five Connecticut facilities in the overnight
hours before the July 3 strike, according to police reports and the
complaint HealthBridge Management filed Thursday with the Chief State's
Attorney office.
Company officials suspect the acts were committed by some of the
employees who went on strike. Those employees are represented by a
chapter of the Service Employees International Union, the largest
healthcare union in North America with roughly 1.1 million members.
“It’s especially heinous to do it to somebody with Alzheimer’s,” said
a HealthBridge spokesman, adding that dietary information also was
compromised. He said the acts put patients' lives at risk and if
somebody had a medical emergency in that window "they could have been in
grave peril."
In the formal complaint, company executives also point out similar
incidents reportedly occurred in 2001 at several nursing homes involved
in labor negotiations with the chapter, New England Heath Care Employees
Union District 1199.
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