Soldier’s Home Analysis of Legal and Ethical Issues

Soldier’s Home Analysis of Legal and Ethical Issues
Name
Institution/ Affiliation
Introduction
The corona virus has not only exposed the unpreparedness of many healthcare systems but also inefficiencies and mismanagement. Ideally, numerous government institutions such as veteran homes are formed to cater the health needs of its citizens particularly those with special needs. Unfortunately, the principal objective of these departments have proven to be away from the goals as exposed by the coronavirus.
To improve efficiency and health care delivery, Massachusetts Legislature passed that Holyoke and Chelsea's Soldier Homes was to be managed by an experienced healthcare professional. As such, it was passed that the organisation was to be headed by an executive director. Unfortunately, the position remained vacant for four years till 2020, when the world started experiencing the coronavirus pandemic (Wasser,2020). Consequently, this situation has led to contentious debates on the management especially in the wake of rampant infections and deaths of soldiers as well as health providers. Therefore, this paper seeks to explore the rationale of the affected individuals seeking legal justice.
Nurses and Healthcare Workers Suing Ground
Health Workers play a crucial role in the provision of quality and safe care in any health care system. The World Health Organisation emphasizes an efficient healthcare system that prevents errors must be built in a culture of safety that incorporates the patients, health providers and organisation (World Health OrganiZation, 2021). Therefore, it is crucial to maintain a safe healthcare environment for healthcare professionals. Besides, the law guarantees health professionals including nurses the right to a safe environment for themselves as well as their patients (Pandit & Pandit,2009).
With this in mind, physicians, healthcare workers, and other staff have a ground to sue the Department of Veteran Services (DVS). Firstly, the nurses and staff in the Homes were more exposed to the virus because they regularly contacted the veterans. Although this might have been the common scenario in most health facilities across the state, nurses in this facility are more exposed to the virus due to someone's professional negligence and improper decision-making. Typically, poor decision making in health care facilities is associated with increased deaths, infections especially hospital acquired infections (Boyle et al., 2013).
In the wake of the coronavirus, many health facilities developed counter measures such as isolation, social distancing, masking to mention a few, with an aim to combat the spread of the infectious disease. However, some of these strategies were not necessarily adopted in the veterans home due to poor decision making by the committee. For instance, limited plans on isolating people affected with the virus were adopted. With no doubt, this amounts to professional negligence which can be directly contributed to inexperienced staff and management. As such, the nurses and other health care can sue the organisation particularly the committee for their failure to recruit the appropriate professions.
On the other hand, the health workers can sue the management for jeopardi...