125 Staff Part Ways With Indiana’s Biggest Hospital System After Refusing Vaccine

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.

Yes, in reply to your comment #16. Many hospital employees have less than four years’ worth of higher education (nurses’ aides presented as nurses by the media, licensed practical nurses as differentiated from registered nurses, etc.), 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.”

The leftist schemers tried to placate health care workers by calling them “essential” as if nobody else was! Not fooling these folks into getting your mystery shot, so mission failed. Democrats have also tried to introduce ‘death panels’ since ObamaDONTcare, and now they are denying lifesaving procedures. I saw an article about that, “Tuberville Demands Answers From HHS Secretary Over Restriction of Antibody Treatments”, and you can give that a look at Townhall. Leftists will just replace us with compliant Haitians and Afghanis. Good to see people waking up to the sweet talk and lies of the left, before it is too late.

“...they can falsely claim its COVID’s fault.”

No - they can falsely claim it is the unvaccinated people’s fault.

I just had somebody (vaxxed) tell me that they aren’t worried about Covid. They are worried that if they get a heart attack all the beds will be full of unvaxxed folks and they will get turned away.

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.

“You know, if we don’t do something about Alzheimer’s in America, every single, solitary hospital bed that exists in America ... every single one will be occupied in the next 15 years with an Alzheimer’s patient," he said during remarks about the economy on May 27."

Biden saying the "quiet part out loud" a couple of months ago.

It may be a mathematical fraction. In reality all healthcare facilities are facing extreme staffing shortages. Many part time and prn workers are filling full time positions. Sick season will be in full swing after Christmas, same as every year before. There are also many people who have already left the system ahead of the mandate, retiring, or as in my case moving to a free state.
So they can play math games with statistics, but be a patient there. You will feel this impact.
But why would you.. everyone there is a needle kneeler to their lord n savior the vax.
If you remember lemmings, those are the ones left to “care” for your health, for the most part. Mindless followers headed for the abyss.

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