U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Mid-Michigan Home Health & Hospice alleging racial discrimination and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The complaint states the company hired a Black female certified nurse assistant in April 2023. During her employment, managers allegedly avoided assigning her to patients in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
According to the filing, supervisors told her certain residents were old-time and did not care for Black people.
Assignment records cited in the lawsuit show the CNA was sent to Grand Blanc five times over a two-month period. During the same timeframe, three white employees were assigned there more than 135 times.
The EEOC alleges the CNA was terminated within 48 hours of complaining that three Grand Blanc assignments were removed from her schedule and given to a white employee.
Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race and bars retaliation against workers who raise complaints.
The EEOC filed EEOC v. Mid-Michigan Home Health & Hospice LLC, Case No. 2:26-cv-10632, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan after administrative conciliation efforts failed.
According to Beinsure analysts, discrimination claims in healthcare settings often intersect with scheduling practices and customer assignment decisions, areas where documentation and internal controls play a central evidentiary role in litigation.
