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125 Staff Part Ways With Indiana’s Biggest Hospital System After Refusing Vaccine
Epoch Times ^
| 09/18/2021
| Tom Ozimek
Posted on 09/18/2021 9:11:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Indiana University Health, the biggest hospital system in the state, has announced that 125 staff members are no longer employed there after refusing to comply with the organization’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
“Indiana University Health has put the safety and well-being of patients and team members first by requiring employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 1,” IU Health said in a Sept. 16 statement. “After a two-week unpaid suspension period ending Sept. 14, a total of 125 employees, the equivalent of 61 full-time employees, chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and have left the organization.”
While the statement did not specify whether the workers quit or were fired, a spokesperson for IU Health told Newsweek that the employees who refused to get the shot resigned.
The Epoch Times has reached out to IU Health with a request for confirmation whether the employees quit or were terminated, but did not receive an immediate response.
“Most of the employees who chose not to be vaccinated worked part time, less than part time or have not worked for a number of months and will have a minimal effect on staffing,” the spokesperson told Newsweek, adding that, as of Friday, all employees at IU Health were compliant with the vaccine mandate.
IU Health, which operates 15 hospitals and dozens of outpatient clinics around the state, employs around 36,000 staff members.
Two weeks ago, IU Health announced that around 300 employees had been suspended and that they could return to work if they received a partial or full COVID-19 vaccination, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.
In June, IU Health announced it would require all doctors, nurses, and other staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, joining over 150 hospital systems nationwide to issue employee vaccine mandates.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: healthcare; hospital; indiana; mandate; nurses; resignations; vaccine; vaccinemandate
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To: SeekAndFind
And then there is that FDA 16 to 3 refusal to advance boosters of spike proteins....Alzheimers results from accumulations of abnormal proteins that deposit themselves inside your brain tissues.
The next 20 years is going to be a great time to be a lawyer. Unless the feds come after all the lawyers with drone strikes?
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posted on
09/18/2021 9:20:22 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
To: SeekAndFind
I wonder if there’s a change in the number of job applications for hospitals and medical clinics, considering that the job qualifications now include not only the usual job duties, but taking injections as ordered and wearing a mask constantly for likely likely years?
It might take a little of the shine off a career in healthcare.
To: SeekAndFind
Unintended consequences of vaccine mandates = staff shortages, deep triage, and “health care rationing”.
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posted on
09/18/2021 9:34:53 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: lightman
I’m not so sure it’s unintended.
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posted on
09/18/2021 9:40:20 PM PDT
by
radu
(God bless our military men and women, past and present)
To: radu
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posted on
09/18/2021 9:44:35 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(Make His Paths Straight!)
To: SeekAndFind
They didn’t “leave the company” you fired them, you stinkin’ Liars!
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posted on
09/18/2021 9:56:04 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: Big Red Badger
They will be the first to die since many of them got the jab first, then the police and firemen. Looks like it is part of a plan by China to destroy the US and western civilization.
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posted on
09/18/2021 9:56:42 PM PDT
by
hotdogjones
(Study shows possible link between blood pressure meds and severe cases of COVID-19)
To: SeekAndFind
These mandates are killing people. Folks are being turned away from treatment because of the labor shortage these mandates create.
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posted on
09/18/2021 9:56:50 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
To: SoConPubbie
RE: They didn’t “leave the company” you fired them, you stinkin’ Liars!
OK, what’s the plan to replace them?
To: Nateman
These mandates are killing people. Yes, they are...so are the vaccines. Lawyers are licking their chops. Sic 'em!
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posted on
09/18/2021 10:01:55 PM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
To: SeekAndFind
OK, what’s the plan to replace them? LOL...there isn't one. Wonder what these fired employees knew?
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posted on
09/18/2021 10:03:41 PM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
To: SeekAndFind
OK, what’s the plan to replace them?
Their plan is to lie about the shortage of beds because now they will have to reduce the official # of beds to match their nurse shortage, and thereby, they can falsely claim its COVID's fault.
Just wait and see
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posted on
09/18/2021 10:04:20 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SeekAndFind
What do these health care workers know that we don’t know? Front line workers willing to be fired or walking off the job to avoid the vax. Things that make you go “Hmmm...”.
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posted on
09/18/2021 10:05:14 PM PDT
by
bluejean
(Living one day at a time in the national psych ward.)
To: Big Red Badger
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posted on
09/18/2021 10:06:09 PM PDT
by
radu
(God bless our military men and women, past and present)
To: SeekAndFind
OK, what’s the plan to replace them? From the article, “Most of the employees who chose not to be vaccinated worked part time, less than part time or have not worked for a number of months and will have a minimal effect on staffing,”
Losing 125 part-time workers in a company that has "15 hospitals and dozens of outpatient clinics around the state, employs around 36,000 staff members." isn't going to have much impact. It's a fraction of a percent, and part-time workers are unlike to be high skill positions.
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posted on
09/18/2021 10:13:32 PM PDT
by
ETCM
To: Not_Who_U_Think
All new hires must be vaccinated before starting work in my company.
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posted on
09/18/2021 10:16:47 PM PDT
by
moviefan8
(#restorethesnyderverse)
To: SeekAndFind
Indiana University Health has put the safety and well-being of patients and team members first No, they didn’t because now they are short staffed and cannot adequately treat or care for patients.
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posted on
09/18/2021 10:23:21 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
To: bluejean
To: ETCM; SeekAndFind
Yes, in reply to your comment #16. Many hospital employees have less than four years’ worth of higher education (one example of many being nurses’ aides presented as nurses by the media), and there are more than enough applicants trying to be hired. Many journalists today are pushing the politics of outrage for the purpose of getting those “clicks.”
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posted on
09/18/2021 11:28:26 PM PDT
by
familyop
("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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