Posted on 09/27/2021 3:57:00 PM PDT by george76
We're starting to get nurses applying because of these hospitals mandating the vaccine," one employer who does not require the vaccine told Alpha News.
While many health care facilities are firing their unvaccinated employees amid a nationwide staffing shortage, some Minnesota companies are taking the opposite approach.
President Joe Biden announced earlier this month that all employers with over 100 employees will be required to institute a company-wide vaccine mandate or face massive recurring fines. Meanwhile, hospitals around the nation are facing nursing shortages that frontline workers say will only be made worse by the Biden mandate as unvaccinated nurses and other professionals are forced out of hospitals. The state government of New York, a nurse in Florida, a hospital CEO in Missouri, and 45% of all nursing homes report critical concern about how the vaccine mandate will impact the already-dwindling ranks of health care workers.
However, some companies are bucking the mandate, retaining their unvaccinated workers and even offering to hire new unvaccinated employees.
“We could hire 20 more nurses today and still not be full,” Todd Johnston, part owner of All About Caring Home Care, told Alpha News. Based in Rush City, Minnesota, All About Caring has been in business for 17 years and presently maintains about 150 employees ranging from registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, private duty nurses and personal care attendants.
The company will not fire its unvaccinated staff who request religious or medical exemptions and is willing to bring in new manpower that hasn’t received the shot. “I do not want anybody to put anything in their body they do not want,” Liz Johnston, another part owner of the company, said at a recent town hall hosted by state Rep. Erik Mortensen.
In addition to being based in company leadership’s personal convictions, this stance also aids them in overcoming the worker shortage.
“We’re starting to get nurses applying because of these hospitals mandating the vaccine, like Fairview and Allina,” Todd Johnston told Alpha News.
He also said that his business hasn’t received any official communication from the government regarding the impending enforcement of the vaccine mandate.
“I’ve only heard what I’ve seen on the news,” he said.
Carefree Cottages in Maplewood, Minnesota, has adopted a similar stance regarding vaccines. In mid-September, it posted a job opportunity that listed “no vaccine requirement” as a benefit of employment — earning the company a hit piece published by KARE 11 last week. After receiving negative media attention, Carefree Cottages altered the language of its listing to read “vaccines are supported, however vaccines are not mandated in the assisted living setting,” KARE 11 reports.
These two companies aren’t alone. Nebraska’s veterans affairs agency recently offered to hire a nurse, listing “no mandated COVID-19 vaccination” as one of the “many great benefits” of the position, according to CBS News.
Medscape, a publication for doctors and other health care professionals, reports that this recruiting tactic is on the rise — noting that a lack of a vaccine mandate has become a “competitive advantage” in the “hospital staffing wars.”
Dan Bongino said today even if the National Guard people were the “medical” ones they couldn’t just walk into a NY hospital and blend right it. They wouldn’t even “know the streets” to get to work and back.
They wouldn’t know the digital codes required for all phases of all treatment plus all insurance codes in the big binders. They would have to be trained on the type of individual laptop software for all preparations, orders and procedures to be done all day.
A preposterous plan by Hochul for NY people to be treated in medical facilities.
Love this. In the real world, you can’t force vaxxes on working class folk. In the pretend world of the leftist elite, you’re supposed to now put your vax status on your resume along with your worthless liberal arts degree and a Twitter handle.
Let it all burn
Takes a long time to be a skilled ICU nurse, etc..
Many patients will die
Exactly.
Cuomo has proven a NY governor can kill thousands of people and there will be no repercussions.
government has created a shortage of skilled nurses everwhere
So If you are unvaccinated nurse - quit your job and find a higher paying one with someone who doesn’t require that.
If you are a vaccinated nurse - quit your job and fina a higher paying one with someone who has caused themselves a problem by firing the unvaccinated ones.
The reaction to Covid will end up killing more people than Covid itself.
Likely so. Unfortunately, none of hospitals themselves will care. Nor will most of the doctors working in those hospitals.
And so it begins…?
Let the market place decide.
Watch Biden jump on this with both feet.
Don't forget the pronouns...
Not requiring vaccine-Minnesota? They’ll have to do that to recruit cops.
My brother never moved out of upstate New York.
Nurses in his area were so well paid they often just worked two days a week.
Governor Hochmut may have them working three.
Boy, what a sweet “buyer’s market” for skilled nursing talent, all based upon that stupid vaccine shot!
Buy an RV and get ready to travel, all for a bigger payday. Love it
When enough Federal Employees DIE in the Parking Lot from the Hospital REFUSING to treat them because they are Federal Employee’s, this will end quickly
I kind of figured most people would knuckle under.
That does not appear to be happening.
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