Focus: Environmental Services

Hospital's housekeepers quitting over coronavirus safety issues

Environmental services workers say they are cleaning coronavirus rooms without proper gear


At least four housekeepers who clean hospital rooms at Ascension St. Francis Hospital on Milwaukee’s south side have quit in the last two weeks, and others are threatening to leave, over coronavirus safety issues, according to an article on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website.

Environmental services workers say they are not being provided proper protective gear.

Employed by a contractor, the housekeepers say they were told to clean rooms where COVID-19 patients were or had been being treated, while only being given a single mask to wear per shift.

“They preach to us for years, ‘One mask, one room,’ and now you’re telling me, ‘One mask for eight hours?’ That doesn’t work for me,” one housekeeper said in the article.

Read the article.

 



April 3, 2020


Topic Area: Environmental Services


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