42 Signed Employee Complaints Have Been Filed Against St. Clair Co. Medical Director

Nurses to rally Thursday before meeting at which county commissioners should vote on independent investigation 

PORT HURON, MI – St. Clair County Health Department nurses and community members will hold a rally Thursday (Oct. 1) and then march to the County Board of Commissioners’ meeting, with the expectation that the board will finally vote on whether to order an independent investigation into Medical Director Dr. Remington Nevin’s workplace conduct.

The rally will take place at 5 pm at Kiefer Park in Port Huron; the commissioners’ meeting starts at 6 pm.

The rally comes after the nurses have provided hundreds of pages of documentation to the county’s corporate counsel, including 42 signed employee complaints, that show the need for an independent, impartial investigation into employee allegations that Nevin has created a toxic workplace. 

The complaints come from multiple county employees, both nurses and others, both union and non-union; the most recent is dated Sept. 11, 2026.

“An independent, impartial investigation is the only path forward because the county has failed for years to act on employee complaints, resulting in nurses and other employees having to work in fear of intimidation, harassment and retaliation,” said Jessica Baker, a health department RN and president of the Michigan Nurses Association local union. “Considering the number and substance of these 42 signed complaints, it’s impossible to see how corporate counsel can do anything other than recommend that the Board of Commissioners immediately order an outside investigation. If commissioners truly have the best interests of county employees and the people we serve in mind, they will vote Thursday to make that happen.”   

Despite the county receiving dozens of employee complaints about Nevin’s conduct over the past two years, some commissioners said at their Sept. 3 meeting that they did not have enough information to act. Since then, nurses have come forward to sign on to formerly anonymous complaints and have gathered other employee complaints through information  requests. 

The county’s corporate counsel said Sept. 3 that his office would make a recommendation to the Board of Directors after reviewing them. According to the timeline laid out, that recommendation should be made by or at Thursday’s meeting.

Concerns about Dr. Nevin’s treatment of nurses and other employees have been brewing since 2024, when county officials looked into serious complaints and concluded that the work environment is “toxic” because of his insults and threats to employees. Their 2024 report also found that Nevin repeatedly violated well-established safety protocols, “endangering staff, patients and the broader community.” The report concluded that multiple factors make the situation “untenable long term.”

In that report, county officials recommended that the County Board of Commissioners arrange for an impartial investigation – yet nothing has been done in all that time. 

The county has failed employees in multiple ways, including:

• A nurse who alleged that Nevin retaliated against her filed a complaint with Human Resources on March 9, 2026, that has never been followed up on. MNA later filed an unfair labor practice charge on the nurse’s behalf with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, which is pending. However, that is an entirely separate matter of whether Dr. Nevin and the county violated state labor law – not county policy.
• County officials repeatedly failed to act on complaints filed through the county’s approved anonymous reporting system, as the 2024 report and subsequent communications recommended. For example, the outcome for a June 20, 2025, hotline complaint was given as “The Board of Commissioners have (sic) been provided with a comprehensive report of concerns along with a recommendation from Administration and the hotline committee to authorize an independent investigation.” 
• In particular, officials failed to follow up on at least two hotline complaints in which the employee stated they were willing to go on the record. Those employees later initiated follow-up on their own, but it’s unknown how many others were never contacted. 
• An information request also uncovered a detailed Aug. 23, 2026, letter to the Board and the County Administrator from a nursing manager laying out the case for an independent investigation into Dr. Nevin’s conduct. 

RALLY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: 5 p.m. Oct. 1

WHO: St. Clair County Health Department nurses (members of the Michigan Nurses Association); supportive community members

WHAT: Rally and march with signs and chanting; nurses participating in public comment at the St. Clair County Board of Commissioners’ meeting

WHEN: Rally starts at 5pm with speakers at 5:10 pm; meeting starts at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1

WHERE: Kiefer Park, 600 Fort St., Port Huron, MI; Board of Commissioners Room, Administrative Office Building, 2nd Floor, 200 Grand River Ave., Port Huron, 48060

WHY: To call on the Board to vote to initiate an independent, impartial investigation into the Medical Director’s conduct

The Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) is the largest union and professional association for registered nurses and healthcare professionals in the state. MNA is an affiliate of National Nurses United and AFL-CIO.