Stephen Milner, MD, the director of the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Regional Burn Center, has filed a lawsuit accusing higher-ups at Johns Hopkins Medicine of covering up risky care at the center's pediatric unit and of retaliating against him after he reported the problems internally, according to a report from The Baltimore Sun.
In the lawsuit, Dr. Milner says officials from Johns Hopkins Medicine removed him as supervisor of the center's pediatric division after he raised complaints about unsafe care, and he alleges the dangerous care led to preventable injuries in six children, according to the report.
Additionally, Dr. Milner accuses Johns Hopkins Medicine of cutting staff at the burn center and requiring him to be on-call all day, every day.
The lawsuit asks the court to reinstate Dr. Milner as head of the adult and pediatric units of the burn center, restore staffing levels and give Dr. Milner "compensatory damages."
Johns Hopkins Medicine officials have said in court that the accusations "have no merit" and a spokeswoman told the Sun that Dr. Milner alleging his safety concerns is a plot to win an "employment dispute."