Posted on 10/22/2021 8:26:15 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
A hospital in Maine announced it would suspend emergency-level care at its walk-in location due to a staffing shortage, coming about a week after a facility in Minnesota suspended its urgent care and emergency room service.
York Hospital said it is suspending emergency care at the Wells, Maine, facility starting Oct. 25.
“York Hospital in Wells will temporarily suspend emergency-level care,” the hospital said in a statement. “Wells Walk-In Care will continue to offer urgent care to all patients” seven days per week but won’t operate 24 hours per day.
“If you are experiencing life-threatening symptoms (severe pain, difficulty breathing) please dial 911 or visit our Emergency Department located on our York campus,” it said.
A spokesperson for the hospital, Jean Kolak, told local media that an unspecified staffing shortage prompted the closure but stressed that Maine’s pending vaccine mandate isn’t the reason why. The Epoch Times has contacted the facility for additional comment, including how long the suspensions of services will last.
The staffing shortage, she stressed to the Portsmouth Herald, is part of a broader staffing issue that has impacted healthcare providers for the past two years around the United States and Maine.
“Universally, health care has seen their workers leaving for other industries, retiring early and especially in nursing, taking on ‘traveler opportunities,'” Kolak said, although she did not say how many employees quit over the state’s mandate. About 98 percent of the hospital’s employees are vaccinated, she said.
Earlier this week, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer rejected a request from thousands of healthcare workers who object to the Maine vaccine mandate on religious grounds. Unlike most other states and cities, Maine’s mandate does not allow for healthcare workers to opt out of the vaccine with a religious exemption, only a medical one.
Breyer, however, wrote that legal aid group Liberty Counsel, who is representing the nurses, can file another emergency injunction. Breyer ordered Mills and other top Maine officials to respond to Liberty Counsel’s request by Oct. 25, according to the group.
The group told The Epoch Times that it will file a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review the case since there is now a split in the circuits. Maine’s vaccine requirement will begin Oct. 29.
“Liberty Counsel will also file the petition for writ of certiorari on behalf of more than 2,000 Maine health care workers asking the High Court to review the case since there is now a split in the circuits, with the First Circuit (governing Maine) denying injunctive relief and the Second Circuit (governing New York), granting injunctive relief regarding virtually identical factual and legal issues,” it said.
Earlier in October, a three-judge panel in Boston on Friday rejected a similar emergency motion that appealed against Maine’s pending mandate.
Meanwhile, a hospital in Minnesota announced Oct. 18 it would suspend its emergency room and urgent care services due to a nurses’ strike. Allina Health, located in Plymouth, told The Epoch Times that due to the strike, emergency and urgent care services at its WestHealth location were suspended from Sunday morning until Wednesday.
Uh huh.
Because of them unpatriotic, unclean, white suprema-cyst, unvaxxed murderers that refuse to comply with the stab. Them stoopid bast**ds. Right brandon? Sorta like al-ick blaming the prop guy.
Heroes last year, zeros this year. Right brandon?
Hospitals everywhere will state:
1) try to schedule your medical emergency in advance so as to coincide with optimal staffing levels.
2) Emergency Number phone message: Press 2 for English. We are sorry we are not able to speak to you at this time as all our staff members are busy assisting other patients. Please call at a non-peak time or write a letter or email describing your condition. Allow us 3-5 work days for your reply.
LOl that is very good
That Austin Powers look-alike governor there needs to be gone.
Biden says cops and other first responders SHOULD be fired for not getting the vaccine and mocks people who use ‘freedom’ as a defense for refusing a shot during CNN town hall!:
President Biden unleashed his anger at people refusing vaccination on Thursday!
During a CNN town hall, he said it was right that emergency responders were fired if they would not get vaccinated against COVID-19!
He also ridiculed people who said mandates infringed their freedom!
‘”I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID.” Come on,’ he said!
Earlier he faced a grilling over his massive social spending proposals!
He offered the broadest update yet on what he is willing to give up in order to win over centrists who have deadlocked his legislative agenda!
The CNN town hall offered him a forum to pitch his plans directly to the public
By ROB CRILLY, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 21:33 EDT, 21 October 2021 | UPDATED: 03:44 EDT, 22 October 2021
Biden Says Cops & Other 1st Responders SHOULD be FIRED For Not Getting the Vaccine!
Mocking People Who Use ‘Freedom’ as a Defense for Refusing a Shot!
We have known that the left doesn’t care if you die.
This pretends to be about saving lives. If you get vaxxed, the story goes, you are protected. But not getting vaxxed is so great a crime, that is it justifies firing huge segments of doctors, nurses and medical personnel, to such a degree that entire hospitals close and people wait hours for care and die.
The contradiction in this is obvious to us, who still have working minds. But much of the public doesn’t mind being gaslighted and having their minds distorted into a writhing mass of contradictions.
No vax, you’re fired, close hospital, people die. All to “save lives.”
Not just about dying. This is to consolidate control over the medical industry and put into effect total government control over healthcare, without any law ever being passed.
Gee i wonder how that happened What a mystery
Boo Hoo Uncle Joe is mad at me (SOB)
Maine has always had difficulty staffing their hospitals. They have always had to offer sign on bonuses, paid moving expenses, free housing etc. The job listings in Maine ran continuously in my professional journals for decades. I went there in the early nineties stayed eighteen months and left because they never achieved the staffing levels they promised. They were nice people, but thirty degrees below zero, three hundred inches of snow, a summer that lasts a month, the poverty and isolation, low wages all made recruitment an endless battle. We were always understaffed, our adds languished in the journals. The few applicants we received were usually foreign trained or new graduates. I went to work every day wondering who was going give their notice today, and was I going to have to work fifty or seventy hours this week. I found the same experience in North Dakota, nice people, but a tough place.
The narrative will be spun that the unvaxed medical workers must be arrested for not coming to work.
No sarcasm. That is being tried out in places now.
Expect a “draft” to force workers soon.
Unexpected!
Boo Hoo Uncle Joe is mad at me (SOB)!
Get into his “Mad at you line!”
Back a few years ago we were so fully staffed that nursing grads were going out of state for a year or more experience before being able to find work in maine
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