Normal, IL, USA / www.cities929.com
Dec 14, 2020 1:11 PM
(The Center Square) â Healthcare providers in Illinois are not only fighting against an ongoing pandemic, but the threat of malpractice and negligence lawsuits connected to thousands of COVID-19 deaths.
Healthcare Heroes Illinois, a nonprofit group that advocates on behalf of long-term care providers and hospital workers, is calling on Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reinstate a level of protection from lawsuits connected to COVID-19. Pritzker included a level of immunity in his emergency orders early in the pandemic but allowed them to sunset in June.
âFrom the outset of this global health crisis, the first-responders in the field and the doctors and nurses in the ERs, ICUs and skilled nursing facilities didnât flinch at responding to the call of duty to protect their patients, while opportunistic TV lawyers were already drawing up plans to turn the tragedies of this pandemic into their own personal profit centers,â�