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Your staff - and the rest of the nation's 13 million healthcare workers - are twice as likely to be injured on the job than workers in any other industry. Because your injured workers are potentially protected under the Americans With Disabilities Act, you should be aware that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is taking aim at healthcare facilities that it deems lax in fulfilling their duties to ADA-protected workers.
