Nursing Home Employee Wrongfully Terminated

June 8, 2009

After reporting several problems at her place of employment, a nursing home worker was fired. She is now suing the establishment for wrongful termination, because she claims that she was fired as a form of retaliation. She worked as a housekeeper at the facility, and her work was paid for by Health Care Services Group in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The woman reported several instances of improper care in the nursing home. She witnessed one resident who had been left in his waste for so many hours that his feces had caked all the way from his hip to just below his knee. She had also seen him wet himself at least once.

She told her supervisor about the waste and the head nurse sprayed deodorant in the man’s room to cover the smell and said that it would be left until the next shift. Another woman who suffered from a similar situation actually wrote a note to her family in anticipation of her death from neglect.

When the staff of the nursing home learned of the woman’s intent to talk to her husband, a retired private investigator known for exposing elder abuse, she was fired. Now, she is suing for lost wages and damages for her wrongful termination.