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BRONX TIMES REPORTER, J 20 JAN. 21-27, 2022 BTR
OSHA cites Montefi ore for violent
workplace safety hazards
BY ROBBIE SEQUEIRA
The Montefi ore Medical Center has
been levied with roughly $17,000 in citations
by the federal Occupational
Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) for exposing its employees to a
violent workplace atmosphere that included
several incidences of Montefi ore
staff being assaulted by patients and a
lack of safeguards for employees in the
Pediatric Emergency Department at
the Children’s Hospital at Montefi ore.
Montefi ore was notifi ed of the federal
violations on Dec. 22, 2021, and submitted
a notice to contest the violations
to OSHA. The matter will be forwarded
to an independent review board.
Montefi ore offi cials did not comment
on the fi ndings of the OSHA investigation
when asked for comment,
but in a statement said that “the health
and safety of our staff and patients are
always our highest priority.”
OSHA’s fi ndings stem from a June
9 investigation they conducted of Montefi
ore’s 3415 Bainbridge Ave. location
in the Norwood section of the Bronx in
response to dozens of workplace safety
and staffi ng complaints fi led by the hospital’s
nurses, with the backing of the
state’s nursing union, this past year.
According to their report, OSHA
found that Montefi ore employees — including
nurses, assistants, technicians
and security personnel — dealt with a
pattern of physical assaults from violent
patients that occurred during oneon
one patient observations, and in attempts
to restraint violent patients,
workers suffered broken bones, bites
and neck, back and shoulder injuries.
Additionally, according to the fi ndings
of the report, those injuries caused
some employees to incur lost work
time. OSHA offi cials told the Bronx
Times on Tuesday that Montefi ore’s
workplace violence prevention program
was “inadequate” and that Montefi
ore administrators failed to protect
workers against recurring patterns of
violence, even after staff began levying
workplace safety concerns internally
and externally last year.
“This employer ignored repeated episodes
of physical assault that put their
employees at risk,” said OSHA Area
Director Robert T. Garvey in a statement.
“Employers can and must reduce
workplace violence hazards by implementing
and maintaining an effective
workplace violence prevention program,
which is an essential safeguard
for these essential workers.”
Montefi ore was cited with a proposed
penalty of $13,653, for not providing
a workplace free from recognized
hazards likely to cause death or serious
physical harm to employees. Two other
violations, which carry proposed penalties
of $3,902, are for what the agency
cited as incomplete, inaccurate and untimely
injury and illness incident reports.
Members of the New York State
Nurses Association (NYSNA) told the
Montefi ore Medical Center was notifi ed of
federal violations on Dec. 22, 2021, for exposing
its employees to a violent workplace.
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Bronx Times that understaffi ng has
been an evergreen issue dating back
to before the COVID-19 pandemic with
administrators failing to address an estimated
390-plus vacancies in the Montefi
ore Moses, Montefi ore Weiler and
Montefi ore Children’s Hospital locations.
The shortage of staffi ng, nurses
said, led to lack of safeguards for employees.
According to NYSNA, Montefi ore
has 393 posted and vacant positions,
and 261 more vacant positions that
are not being recruited for at all. In
the three hospitals’ emergency departments
alone, there are 81 vacancies.
But this isn’t the fi rst time Montefi
ore has been hit with occupational
violations from the federal agency.
In 2003, Montefi ore was cited for
other workplace health hazard regulations
that failed to comply with federal
regulations and standards for
use of syringes, needles and scalpels.
At the time, OSHA found 46 instances
of unsafe practices under the Bloodborne
Pathogens Standard and fi ned
the institution a total of $9,000 in total.
Montefi ore had until Tuesday to
address the serious violations for
“recognized hazards,” and until Jan.
27 to address the two less-than-serious
violations.
To address safety measures, OSHA
recommends Montefi ore administrators
employ 24-hour closed-circuit surveillance
in all areas of the hospital, identify
potential gaps in its workplace violence
policies and strengthen security parameters
within its hospital wings.
New York state offi cials hope a
change to state law that requires every
hospital in the state to establish minimum
staffi ng standards for intensive
and critical care units can help alleviate
the dire need for staffi ng.
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