Amy Reichert @amyforsandiego | Kaiser Permanente is begging doctors they fired over the COVID shot to crawl back to the HMO & reapply

X ^ | May 22, 2024 | Amy Reichert @amyforsandiego

[ransomnote]

[H/T Grey_Whiskers]

Breaking:

Kaiser Permanente is begging doctors they fired over the COVID shot to crawl back to the HMO & reapply:

KAISER PERMANENTE•

May 17, 2024

Dr. Owen Johnston,

We are writing to let you know that there has been a change in the Kaiser Permanente COVID-19 Vaccination for KP Workforce Members Policy ("Vaccine Policy") that may impact you. As you may recall, the federal government and various state and local entities required COVID-19 vaccinations for, among others, healthcare workers during the pandemic. Consistent with the government-mandated COVID-19 vaccine laws, and as part of its ongoing efforts to protect the health and safety of Kaiser Permanente members, patients, and employees, many of whom were at high-risk from COVID-19, in 2021 Kaiser Permanente implemented a Vaccine Policy. The Vaccine Policy required, as a condition of employment, that employees must either submit proof that they were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any applicable boosters), or receive an approved exemption, by the specified timeline. Due to changes in the federal, state and local vaccine requirements or recommendations, among other reasons, the Vaccine Policy has been revised effective February 1, 2024.

Specifically, vaccination against COVID-19 is no longer required as a condition of employment. While COVID-19 vaccination will not be a requirement of working at Kaiser Permanente, employees will be required to annually verify their COVID-19 vaccination status. We understand that your employment may have ended at Kaiser Permanente because of your non-compliance with the Vaccine Policy. Given the revision to the Vaccine Policy, we wanted to inform you that you are eligible for rehire with Kaiser Permanente for open and available positions for which you are qualified if you chose to reapply (unless you are ineligible for rehire for other reasons unrelated to the non-compliance with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate). You may search for open and available positions here:

https://kaiserpermanentejobs.org/search-jobs

We appreciate your prior service to Kaiser Permanente and its members and patients, and we encourage you to apply for open positions.

Sincerely Yours,

Kaiser Permanente

[ransomnote]

Biden's order ending the vaccine mandate May 1, 2023.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/01/the-biden-administration-will-end-covid-19-vaccination-requirements-for-federal-employees-contractors-international-travelers-head-start-educators-and-cms-certified-facilities/

[E. Pluribus Unum]

When does she go to prison?

[Stosh]

Lots of words in that letter, but I didn’t see any apologizing for what they’d done to their (former) docs.

[CatOwner]

As you may recall, the federal government and various state and local entities required COVID-19 vaccinations for, among others, healthcare workers during the pandemic.

I don't recall healthcare workers here in our part of Central Texas being required to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Masks, yes. Hand sanitizer, yes.

[algore]

Do I get back pay and an apology ?

No ?

oh well, I guess I can use this junk mail to wipe my ass

[Gnome1949]

Reply simply: GFY

[chuckb87]

“...oh well, I guess I can use this junk mail to wipe my ass.”

Don’t do that! Libtards have touched it. You could get a serious infection.

[Ninaq]

Notice all the wording to cover themselves.
“It wasn’t us- it was the federal government!”

[Spok]

Litigation from this fiasco is going to last for years. Immunity will be the first challenge, opening the floodgates.

[voicereason]

To be fair, that letter doesn’t really read as begging.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Tell them to go snort Endust.

[NorthMountain]

“Out of an abundance of caution, and in accordance with CDC guidelines” we’re going to stomp on your liberty.

From March 2020 on, FedGov was at the root of all covidiocy.

[glorgau]

And if they did get rehired chances are that there will be some little slip of paper to sign that waives any liability for firing them in the first place.

[MeganC]

To my knowledge at least Kaiser wasn’t tyrannical enough to sue the people they fired so they couldn’t work anywhere else.

[Grampa Dave]

My wife and I are patients with Kaiser for many years. Our care before the Covid B$ was excellent.

This Covid B$ has hurt many patients re difficulty in getting needed surgery and other skilled medical interventions due to not enough Doctors and RNs before and after the Covid B$..

[lurk]

Just following orders from the govt. So, forget all that and come work your 36 hour shifts for us again.

[hinckley buzzard]

The letter reads as if it were composed by someone who knows full well they will get zero favorable responses to it, if it is even read before being discarded as junk mail.

[Myrddin]

One of my favorite docs on Twitter/X received one of those letters. Her answer was "GFY".

[Tymesup]

KP still wants your jab status annually.

KP took a year to change their policy.

KP doesn’t say anything about how their policy will be determined in the future. They could hire you tomorrow and fire you the day after that.

KP kept this policy for a long period of time after a large number of health professionals whose opinions they valued then and now strongly disagreed with it.

[Albion Wilde]

To be fair, that letter doesn’t really read as begging.

Tone, schmone. The very fact of the letter—addressed to those whose career and medical integrity it formerly savaged on behalf of the payoffs from the government—is begging.