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Alexis Krell: Ex-safety manager sues MultiCare, alleges wrongful termination for reporting hazards
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 12/20/2020 Alexis Krell, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Dec. 20 A former safety manager has sued MultiCare, alleging that the health system retaliated against him for whistleblower complaints he filed.
Christopher LaDue s lawsuit, filed earlier this month in Pierce County Superior Court, names MultiCare and The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
He accused MultiCare of failing to address his concerns, and The Joint Commission of making it obvious that he was the whistleblower. While employed at MultiCare as the Manager of Safety and Environment of Care, Mr. LaDue tried to address unsafe and unsanitary conditions that existed at many of MultiCare s locations, his attorney Kristi Favard said in a statement. MultiCare s management was aware of, and acknowledged, the risks to the public these conditio