Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals, doing business as HonorHealth, which provides medical care at a number of hospitals and medical facilities in the Phoenix area, failed to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit. The EEOC also alleged that HonorHealth fired employees or forced them to quit because of their disabilities or because they needed accommodations. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, employees with disabilities were repeatedly denied reasonable accommodations, including assistive devices, modified work schedules, and reassignment. Instead of engaging in the required interactive process or discussing possible accommodations, or providing them, HonorHealth forced the employees out of their jobs, the EEOC charged. Such alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities. The lawsuit seeks lost wages and compensatory and punitive damages, as well as appropriate injunctive relief to prevent discriminatory practices in the future.
