Orlando Health Bayfront workplace complaints<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Tamiko Keaton says she worked for Orlando Health Bayfront\u2019s Baby Place program, which operates inside Johns Hopkins All Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n
Keaton says she repeatedly raised concerns through HR and ethics channels about workplace culture, staff treatment, patient safety and racial hostility.<\/p>\n
One of those concerns involved a Valentine\u2019s Day display.<\/p>\n
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The image shows a black heart-shaped character with large white eyes, a wide, white-outlined mouth, a red tongue and red hands. Keaton and the St. Pete NAACP say it resembled blackface and historical anti-Black caricatures.<\/p>\n
Keaton says the display was posted on a medication room door in the nurses\u2019 station.<\/p>\n
“Everybody going in to access the patient’s meds, different kinds of monitor machines we use, the wireless. You saw that for 28 days. I saw that,” Keaton said.<\/p>\n
St. Pete NAACP questions Valentine’s Day display<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
The St. Pete NAACP sent letters to Orlando Health Bayfront and Johns Hopkins All Children\u2019s asking for a review.<\/p>\n
In those letters, the NAACP says Keaton provided photos, written statements and supporting materials.<\/p>\n
The group says the bigger question is not just how the display got there. It\u2019s what happened after Keaton says she reported it.<\/p>\n
“When you see something, say something. There’s zero retaliation. That is a bold-faced lie,” Keaton said. “I have been blackballed for whistleblowing and something has to be done.”<\/p>\n
Keaton claims her complaints were not meaningfully addressed. She says she later faced harassment, targeting, retaliation and termination.<\/p>\n
Esther Sanni, president of the St. Pete NAACP, says leadership needs to answer whether it knew about the concerns and how they were handled.<\/p>\n
“Is it that you’re just not aware of what’s happening or is it that you are intentionally hoping that this person goes quiet so that you don’t have to address it?” Sanni said. “Either of those situations doesn’t work because the buck stops with the leadership.”<\/p>\n
Orlando Health response<\/p>\n
The other side<\/p>\n
FOX 13 reached out to Orlando Health for a response.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Orlando Health said, “We are committed to maintaining a workplace and patient-care environment that is respectful, inclusive and free from discrimination. Consistent with our policies and obligations to our team members, we don\u2019t comment on personnel matters.”<\/p>\n
In a separate letter to the St. Pete NAACP, Orlando Health Bayfront President John Moore wrote that the hospital is familiar with the allegations raised by the former registered nurse.<\/p>\n
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Moore wrote that the allegations happened over the last two-plus years and were previously investigated and reviewed. He also wrote that Orlando Health Bayfront will further review the concerns raised by the NAACP, but said personnel and investigative confidentiality limit what the hospital can disclose.<\/p>\n
FOX 13 also contacted the registered nurse named in the NAACP letter as the person who allegedly created the display. She told FOX 13 all communications would be handled by her employer, Orlando Health Bayfront.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this story comes from an interview with former Orlando Health Bayfront RN Tamiko Keaton and St. Petersburg NAACP President Esther Sanni, letters sent by the St. Petersburg NAACP to Orlando Health Bayfront and Johns Hopkins All Children\u2019s Hospital, a written response from Orlando Health Bayfront President John Moore, a statement from Orlando Health, and FOX 13\u2019s outreach to Orlando Health Bayfront, Johns Hopkins All Children\u2019s and the RN named in the NAACP letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Former Orlando Health Bayfront RN Tamiko Keaton says she reported workplace concerns, including a Valentine\u2019s Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[99641,13703,6031,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-302544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-johns-hopkins","tag-naacp","tag-orlando-health","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}