Hospital custodians work the same 12-hour shifts, using special training to ensure hospitals stay clean, but for considerably less pay and sometimes without the same protective gear given to doctors and nurses.
Environmental service workers “are such an integral part of the whole healthcare team,” said Jane Hopkins, executive vice president ofchapter. “In a hospital, they’re just as important as a doctor — they’re just doing a completely different job.”
Justo Mejia, 58, has spent 10 years as an environmental service worker at Northridge Hospital Medical Center near Los Angeles. On vacation when coronavirus first hit, Mejia returned to work in mid-March and found himself in the middle of unprecedented chaos. In a statement, the Northridge Hospital Medical Center said it has"followed CDC guidelines on personal protective equipment from the beginning of this pandemic and we adapt and implement new policies to comply with their recommendations." A spokeswoman declined to address Mejia's comments directly.Padilla, the environmental service tech at LAC+USC, said he’s had the same PPE as nurses and doctors since the pandemic hit.
Like many environmental service workers, he’s nervous about a second, deadlier wave of cases as the country opens back up. If that happens, he hopes people will understand the critical role he and his colleagues play in keeping America safe.He paused and laughed softly. “And we’d love to get hazard pay.”Many hospital custodians point to their interactions with frail patients as evidence that they are making an important contribution.
Cepeda has seen so many tributes to doctors and nurses, she’s lost count. But she hasn’t lost the belief that they're not the only ones who matter.In Kirkland, Washington, where the nation'sat a local nursing home, patients were hospitalized at EvergreenHealth, where Warren Juvle, an environmental service day shift supervisor, has worked since 2013.
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