Care Alert Meadow Park
Support Meadow Park workers in their fight for safe staffing and quality resident care
Meadow Park workers have been bargaining for months with management. While they have made progress in some areas, several key issues remain unresolved, most importantly: wages, health benefits, and safe staffing. On these issues, Meadow Park management has shown little movement or willingness to compromise. Meadow Park workers have been working short-staffed for too long, and resident care has suffered. On September 30, workers voted to authorized their bargaining team to call for a strike.
Workers will hold an informational picket for a fair contract on October 11th, 1-3pm. Please join us on the picket line if you are able! Meadow Park workers are standing up for quality resident care by demanding that management bargain a fair contract that includes
- Fair worker compensation, to recruit and retain quality staff
- Safe staffing language, to ensure quality resident care
A record of abuse and neglect
There have been at least 32 substantiated abuse and licensing violations and 85 violations of regulatory requirements at Meadow Park since June 2021 (Oregon Department of Human Services, Long Term Care Licensing, Facility Details, Meadow Park Health: https://www.ltclicensing.oregon.gov/Facilities/Details/385222, retrieved 5/21/2025)
“…Resident 27 reported 10 out of 10 pain to nursing staff… On 9/5/23 Resident 27 stated the facility ran out of her/his pain medication “about two weeks ago” and was informed a refill was not ordered by facility staff. She/he stated the facility ran out of her/his pain medication again a week later.” [8/25/2023]
“The Third Quarter 2023 staffing report submitted by the facility indicated a shortage of 67 Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) during July, August and September 2023. None of the shortages were mitigated as the facility failed to detail how care was provided to residents during the shortage.” [10/31/2023]
“The facility failed to ensure a safe environment related to smoking for 4 of 4 sampled residents (#s 6, 16, 17 and 36) reviewed for smoking. This deficient practice was determined to be an immediate jeopardy (IJ) situation and placed all residents at risk for serious harm, serious injury or death and constituted substandard quality of care.” [9/1/2023]
Source: Oregon Department of Human Services Substantiated Abuse Complaints
A care staffing crisis
A 2023 Washington Post investigation tallied nearly 100 deaths nationwide of residents who wandered away from understaffed care facilities, including two in Oregon. The Willamette Week recently investigated the staffing crisis in Oregon nursing homes
Nearly two-thirds of [Oregon’s] 126 nursing homes were cited for short staffing within the past three years. Nearly a third were cited in the past year. … This results in poor care, employees say. “There isn’t enough nursing staff to complete everything,” a nurse … told inspectors last September. “This is unsafe.”
Source: Manfield, Lucas. (2024, August 28). Residents of Nursing Homes Keep Wandering Away—and It’s Because the Facilities Aren’t Following State Law. Willamette Week.
You can help
Contact the Meadow Park Managing Partners, Scott Clawson and Ryan Williams at scott@kalestahc.com and ryan@kalestahc.com. Tell them to settle a fair contract that ensures fair worker compensation and quality care to residents.
Put a sign in your home, business, or car window to show your support for Meadow Park workers. Download a printable sign here.
Resources for Meadow Park workers
Questions and Answers about strikes
Report Unfair Labor Practices