sick call

1 By the end of the shutdown on Jan. 25, 2019, sick calls by TSA workers resulted in long lines at airports across the country.

2 On Super Bowl Sunday, according to the survey’s estimates, about 17.2 million employees were expected to get out of work, fake a sick call or skip out on a Sunday night shift in order to watch the game.

3 As with other medical concerns, people in custody at the facility can sign up for sick call to be seen and treated by the detention center’s medical staff.

4 The wave of sick call-outs has also led to jammed Covid benefits lines.

5 Another rule requires staff to respond to sick call requests within 24 hours of the request.

6 However, there were other issues uncovered at the facility, including lack of sick call documentation and inconsistency with Covid-19 guidelines.

7 The most recent report found that in some cases the registered nurse at the Adams facility was not noting the disposition of the detainee sick call visit and that the medical unit was not documenting follow-up on detainee laboratory test results.

8 Prisoners’ requests to be seen by the medical team, known as sick call slips, weren’t being collected, the lawyers wrote on Oct. 30.