“horrifically severe\u201d injuries after being stabbed<\/a> by a man.<\/p>\nSchellenberg, who was in a senior management position in the hospital\u2019s renal program at the time, described it as \u201ca surreal and chaotic scene\u201d that required her \u201cimmediate and life-saving intervention,\u201d the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n
Before entering the hospital and stabbing Szkwarek about 20 times, Trevor Robert Farley killed his parents \u2014 Stuart Farley and Judy Swain \u2014 earlier that same day at separate locations in Winnipeg and New Bothwell, Man., respectively.<\/p>\n
Farley was found not criminally responsible for the killings, as had well as the attempted murder of his former supervisor at the hospital, because of a mental disorder.<\/p>\n
Schellenberg was promoted three times during her nearly 16-year term employment at the hospital, and \u201ccontinually proved herself to be a valuable and reliable employee and performed all of her duties faithfully, loyally, diligently and in a highly competent manner,\u201d the statement of claim asserts.<\/p>\n
She continued working at the hospital immediately following the incident, but soon demonstrated psychiatric symptoms and was excused from work by her psychologist effective mid-December 2021.<\/p>\n
Schellenberg received \u201congoing and regular treatment\u201d from several medical professionals during her time away from work, but remained \u201chighly motivated\u201d to return to her position in the hospital\u2019s renal program, the suit alleges.<\/p>\n
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Trevor Robert Farley, 39, was found not criminally responsible in the deaths of his mother and father, and in the attempted murder of his former supervisor at Seven Oaks Hospital. (Submitted)Plaintiff didn’t receive supports from employers<\/p>\n
She gradually returned to the hospital in late March 2023, but soon began to experience challenges in the workplace. Schellenberg claims she was repeatedly questioned by hospital management about her health, told \u201cshe didn\u2019t look healthy\u201d and that her return to work was \u201ctoo aggressive,\u201d which upset her.<\/p>\n
Less than a month after returning to the workplace, the defendants were notified by the health authority\u2019s case management co-ordinator with Occupational and Environmental Safety & Health that the defendants had failed to understand their role in helping Schellenberg return to the hospital.<\/p>\n
She was relocated to an office position in May 2023, a decision that disappointed her.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot being given the opportunity to work on the renal unit of the hospital where she could do meaningful work and adapt to her ultimate working environment was counter-productive to her recovery and return to work,\u201d the claim says.<\/p>\n
Schellenberg\u2019s psychologist thought it best to remove her from the hospital in July 2023 until such time as she could find more suitable employment within the health authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her termination just before Christmas 2023 \u201cconstituted discrimination,\u201d according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
The hospital, health authority and their agents treated Schellenberg in \u201can inhumane, callous and oppressive manner\u201d at the time of her dismissal, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
She claims the defendants knew at the time of her termination that she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and in a very fragile mental and emotional state.<\/p>\n
Her firing was \u201cshockingly harsh, malicious and reprehensible and done in bad faith,\u201d the statement of claim says.<\/p>\n
Schellenberg also contends in the suit that the defendant didn\u2019t provide her with any support or assistance in coping with the aftermath of the October 2021 incident, and instead \u201cseized upon this opportunity to dismiss her\u201d on the basis of her mental state.<\/p>\n
She believes any future attempts to return to the health-care field are hampered by her dismissal, age as well as the physical and mental distress she deals with following the stabbing.<\/p>\n
Schellenberg is seeking a declaration from the hospital and the health authority that she was wrongfully dismissed. She is also seeking general, punitive, exemplary, aggravated, moral and bad faith damages, as well as for lost income and court costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-362184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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