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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

pic.twitter.com/FRY4ESW77e — Amy Reichert (@amyforsandiego) May 23, 2024

All HMO’s are guilty.

How passive/aggressive of them!

*We understand that your employment may have ended at Kaiser Permanente because of your non-compliance with the Vaccine Policy.*

And blame shifting to boot.

What really happened was *We know we fired you because you didn’t cave to our vaccine policy demands.*

hey would be fools to go back. Better to have private practice and if they are specialists, heart doctors and such, they should maybe investigate setting up or joining offshore hospitals and clinics. Some countries around the Caribbean have designed or altered their tax codes to attract them. That is what many of the best British doctors and Canadian doctors did when their countries went all in for socialized medicine. Those docs went mostly to India and Thailand.

Wow! First, in their letter Kaiser immediately blames the federal government. No mention of the fact that Kaiser is this huge national healthcare powerhouse that is at the very pinnacle of making and influencing government health policy and could have easily pushed back and likely forced the government to back off.

Second, Kaiser’s letter goes on to specifically blame the individual doctor for not submitting to the vaccination mandate and then arrogantly states that now that the mandate has been lifted, “You are no longer in violation.” What? Are you kidding me? Talk about rubbing salt in the wound. No way I’d work for any organization that had the audacity to send out such a highly insulting letter.

Kaiser should hire back every doctor who wants to go back, with both back pay, a signing bonus and no annual verification. This would be non-negotiable for any future outbreaks.

“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.” Yeah, I bet is those that left won’t be cheap hires.