Nurses have been telling lawmakers that hospital understaffing is putting patient lives at risk. They want Michigan to follow California and Oregon and institute mandatory staffing ratios.
Tim Lillard at the home he and his late wife, Ann Picha-Lillard, shared in suburban southeast Michigan. Since her death in 2022, Lillard has made it his mission to pass the Safe Patient Care Act, which would create mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios in Michigan hospitals.Tim Lillard at the home he and his late wife, Ann Picha-Lillard, shared in suburban southeast Michigan.
All he could do then was sit on Ann's bed and hold her hand, watching helplessly as staff performed chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, desperately trying to save her life. "I without a doubt believe 100 percent Ann would still be here today if they had staffing levels, mandatory staffing levels, especially in ICU," Lillard says.Tim Lillard holds a rosary with his late wife's name on it. It was given to him as a gift after her death in 2022. Over the past year, Tim has become an advocate for mandatory staffing legislation limiting the number of patients in a nurse's care.Tim Lillard holds a rosary with his late wife's name on it.
So just to be safe, doctors at DMC Huron Valley Sinai wanted to keep Ann for observation. But after a few days in the hospital, Ann developed pneumonia. Doctors told them she needed to be intubated. Ann was terrified. Lillard begged her: please, babe. Listen to them.Ann Picha-Lillard died at DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital in Commerce Township, Michigan on Nov. 19, 2022 at age 65.
On Thursday Nov. 17th, 2022 Ann was off sedation, and cried when she saw Lillard and her daughter. Still unable to speak, she tried to mouth words to Tim,"but we couldn't understand what she was saying." Lillard says he interviewed two DMC Huron Valley Sinai nurse administrators, and had his own doctor look through Ann's charts and test results from the hospital."Everybody kept telling me: sepsis, sepsis, sepsis," he says.
Lassater is a proponent of mandatory nurse ratios."The nursing shortage is not a pipeline problem, but a leaky bucket problem. And the solutions to this crisis need to address the root cause of the issue, which is why nurses are saying they're leaving employment. And it's rooted in unsafe staffing. It's not safe for the patients, but it's also not safe for nurses.
"I have been left as the only specially-trained nurse to take care of eight babies on the unit: eight fragile newborns," said Carolyn Clemens, an RN from the Grand Blanc area.
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