HPAE statement on Healthcare workers workplace COVID exposure data bill

The following statement can be attributed to HPAE President Debbie White, RN: 

“HPAE’s 14,000 members are grateful to our legislators for passing a law mandating that hospitals track and report data regarding coronavirus infection among hospital workers to the Department of Health.  Front line essential healthcare workers have been and continue to be exposed to COVID-19 while caring for patients desperately sick with the virus in our hospitals.  Nine months into this pandemic, we still do not have an accurate accounting of these affected workers.  Getting precise data on healthcare worker exposure and COVID illness is critical to understanding healthcare worker safety during a pandemic outbreak and essential to developing a plan to improve going forward.  We now urge Gov. Phil Murphy to promptly sign it into law.”

For more information, please contact: Michael Allen: (646) 436-7556, mallen@hpae.org