In the appeals court filing by the hospital on Sept. 2, officials ask the court to keep Michigan department of health and human services employees away from the hospital while the state attorney general and Genesee County prosecutor conduct an criminal investigation into the hospital.
Three current or former MDHHS employees have been charged with criminal wrongdoing relating to their roles in the crisis, according to the article.
At least 12 people in Genesee County died after contracting Legionnaires’ disease in 2014 and 2015, around the time the county changed its main water source to the Flint River. Fifty of the 90 reported cases in 2015 resulted after patients were found to have stayed in McLaren-Flint hospital, according to the article.
In late August, MDHHS asked the appeals court to overturn a secret court order preventing the agency from obtaining hospital records and information related to the Legionnaires’ outbreak.
In response to the hospital’s appeals court filing, MDHHS issued a statement saying it is “unacceptable for a local hospital to take any action that threatens the [public’s] health and [bars] the department from investigating such activity,” according to the article.
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