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Unconstitutional Idiot Joe Biden's Mass Worker Firings Now
Causing Massive Nationwide Embarassment As Hospital Worker
Shortage and ER Bed Care Etc Shutdowns...


https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-hospitals-drop-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-to-ease-labor-shortages-11639396806
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccinations-healthcare-workers-refuse-risk-jobs-11634915929
https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-hospitals-prepare-to-lose-staff-over-covid-19-vaccination-mandate-11638181800
Hospitals Dropping Vax Mandate Due To Labor Shortages, Court Order

On Sunday we noted that hospitals in four states have called in the
National Guard to help alleviate a severe healthcare worker shortage
caused by mass firings of those who refuse to comply with vaccine
mandates.

Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that some of the largest US
hospital systems have dropped vaccine mandates for workers amid
soaring labor costs and struggles retaining enough nurses,
technicians, 'and even janitors' to handle higher hospitalization
rates due to the Delta variant.

According to hospital execs, public health authorities and nursing
groups, pre-pandemic shortages of workers, including nurses, have been
compounded by burnout, as well as the lucrative lure of nurses who
work on short-term contracts in Covid hot spots.

    More recently, thousands of nurses have left the industry or lost
their jobs rather than get vaccinated. As of September, 30% of workers
at more than 2,000 hospitals across the country surveyed by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were unvaccinated.

"It’s been a mass exodus, and a lot of people in the healthcare
industry are willing to go and shop around," according to employment
attorney Wade Symons, head of Mercer's US regulatory practice. "If you
get certain healthcare facilities that don’t require it, those could
be a magnet for those people who don’t want the vaccine. They’ll
probably have an easier time attracting labor."

In November, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled that the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services didn't have the authority to force
healthcare workers to take the jab - blocking a Biden admin rule which
would have applied to some 10 million workers and would have required
all employees at facilities participating in Medicare / Medicaid take
the jab by Jan. 4.

"I don’t think the mandates were helpful and I think the court in
Louisiana did everyone a service," said Ballad Health CEO Alan Levine,
who oversees the administration of 21 hospitals in Tennessee and
Virginia.

    Mr. Levine said his company has about 14,000 employees, some 2,000
of whom are unvaccinated or didn’t request an exemption to the
requirement. “That many people having to be terminated would have been
devastating to our system,” Mr. Levine said. -WSJ

Meanwhile, one of the country's largest healthcare providers, HCA,
suspended their previous deadline of Jan. 4 for all workers following
the court halt.

"We continue to strongly encourage our colleagues to be vaccinated as
a critical step to protect individuals from the virus," said spokesman
Harlow Sumerford, who added that a majority of their roughly 275,000
workers were fully vaccinated.

Tenet and AdventHealth also announced that they were waiving the
requirement following the court decision, while the Cleveland Clinic -
which runs 19 hospitals in Ohio and Florida and employees roughly
65,000 people, along with Utah hospital giant Intermountain
Healthcare, said they would similarly suspend the vax requirement.