Home Health: Court OK's Aide's Firing For Having Keys To Client's Home 

Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession

October 1998

  Quick Summary:  A home health agency can prohibit caregivers from accepting keys from clients to clients’ homes without prior approval from the agency, and can fire an aide for violating this policy as set forth in the agency’s employee handbook, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, recently ruled. Claim of Williams, 675 N.Y.S. 2d 210 (N.Y. App., 1998).