The Michigan Department of Civil Rights has filed a formal charge of discrimination against McLaren Regional Medical Center Auxiliary alleging unequal service and failure to accommodate based on disability.

The charge filed on Friday, Nov. 21, claims a person with quadriplegia applied for volunteer positions and participated in a June 2019 interview.

“Claimant alleges that during the interview several comments were made questioning whether the disability would interfere with the ability to perform any volunteer position and subsequently refused to consider any accommodation,” an MDCR news release reads. “The effect of this denial was that Claimant was deprived of the full and equal enjoyment of volunteer opportunities with McLaren.”

The person subsequently filed a complaint of discrimin

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