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Who do I call to report illegal actions in the workplace?
I work at an assisted living center in Utah and they do A LOT of illegal things in this facility. I'm just not comfortable with it. The nurse doesn't discard discontinued or expired meds and so residents end up taking them, they allow 2 people transfers into the facility as well as full term alzheimers patients who are violent which I thought was illegal since it's not a nursing home, its assisted living and they also treat their employees with extreme unfairness. I know treating employees unfair isn't illegal to an extent but is there a number I can call to not only report unfairness but another number I can call to report the illegal actions so state can come in and fix it? I dont want anyone to get in trouble but I see these residents suffer from it and I just dont feel comfortable holding it in anymore.
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Every state treats assisted living centers differently. What bothers me the most is an assisted living center passing out medication, its not done in my state unless the center is attached to a nursing home.
In any case what you should do is contact the state or county health department with what you have observed. Using expired medication is not all that horrible depending on just how long they have been expired. The expiration date is more of a do not sell after date, or shelf life of the medication. After this date the medication will begin to lose its potency. The medication can still be taken for a month or two after the expiration date, in most cases without harm to the patient.
As to the other things you have observed; it is going to depend on how the facility is licensed and the laws and regulations governing assisted living centers in your state. Still if you have observations that you feel they are doing things that are harmful to the residents. Then you have an obligation to report it to the licensing authority. That should be the should be the state or local health department. At the very least they would be a good place to start.
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