Posted on 10/12/2021 3:11:05 PM PDT by lightman
The CEO of a hospital system in rural southeastern Missouri warned that President Joe Biden’s announced COVID-19 vaccine mandate for most healthcare workers could trigger significant staffing shortages.
“Our reality is we need staff to work. And in return for your working, we’re not going to ask you to get a vaccine mandate,” Scotland County Hospital CEO Randy Tobler told CNN in an interview published Tuesday. “There were people in the hospital that freely shared that if the vaccine mandate happened on our account or on anyone else’s, they would not work here. That’s just something they weren’t going to put in their body.”
Noting that he’s lost about 18 percent of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tobler said that he cannot afford to mandate vaccines that would alienate even more staff. The mandate, he said, won’t make the nurses want to get vaccinated but will instead prompt them to quit.
According to the CEO, about 60 percent of Scotland County Hospital’s staff are vaccinated. Tobler said he suspects that not having a vaccination requirement allowed his facility to retain more workers.
“I criticized President Biden’s mandate,” Tobler also remarked. “I thought it was a mistake because I think it’s going to backfire.”
Many employees, Tobler added, “were pleased that we honored their right to choose what they want to do with their body, and I think that may have helped retain some staff that may have been tempted to jump to other places because of salary or what they perceive as different working conditions.”
Tobler said he’s still confused why so many nurses and other staff won’t get the vaccine, noting that many have seen someone they know die or get seriously ill from COVID-19.
But Tobler’s warning in the CNN interview comes about a month after the CEO of a hospital in rural Texas warned that his facility may be forced to close down following Biden’s announced mandate. The president said on Sept. 9 that healthcare workers who are employed at facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding need to be vaccinated.
Brownfield Regional Medical Center CEO Jerry Jasper told KCBD that “20 percent … probably 20 to 25 percent of my staff will have to go away if that’s the case. And losing those workers, he said, would likely cause his hospital to shut down.
Losing Medicare and Medicaid money isn’t an option either, he said.
“It’s huge in our rural community as all the other rural communities. We all have high poverty levels and stuff like that, so a lot of Medicaid usage in our communities and stuff like that,” Jasper said.
...especially when seeking "fundamental transformation"
P2 issues a warning:
Accept acquired COVID immunity as premiere or be personally defunded.
Obviously some woke judge will inevitably order healthcare workers to get the shot and return to the jobs they were fired from.
Just wait. It’s coming.
Employee vaccine mandates are treating employees like farm animals for medical experimentation.
Many folks don’t like that one bit.
The mandate that has never actually been formalized?
Someone should tell him there’s no official vax mandate from Biden - just a press release.
It’s not just employees walking.
A little birdie told me that, in my neck of the woods, patients are canceling elective tests/procedures in support of fired employees.
And the little birdie wasn’t happy about it.
This is in Northeast MO not Southeast MO.
I live in Southeast MO.
The one and the same...
As in forced vaccinations? I'd like to see it happen, if only to watch a vast majority of Americans to wimp out.
“As in forced vaccinations? I’d like to see it happen, if only to watch a vast majority of Americans to wimp out.”
It’s already started.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/nyregion/covid-vaccine-judge-order.html
You can lead a horse to water, but can you make it start an IV ...?
If I were a nurse and the judge ended up in front of me...
These are very bizarre rulings for dozens of reasons since they involve negotiations over punishment for criminals.
I would rather see criminals be the subject of medical experimentation than the general population—but these particular rulings open a slippery slope that could go in any direction.
The judges’ logic is fundamentally insane since the judges believes all of the false pro-vaxx propaganda.
That’s still the plan.
It ain’t working very well.
The so-called mandates are working to a certain extent in NYC. Larger percentages than predicted are getting vaccinated among education and health care personnel.
I was in a CVS on Sunday getting a flu shot and the long lines were for the covid vaccine.
Our mayor is very probably going to announce “mandates” for fire and police forces soon, and possibly for all city agencies and departments.
What mandate?
CornPop has t mandated anything on the private sector.
Amazing how easy it is to manipulate the masses and how complicit the liberal corporate leadership/management is. Almost as if they know what their orders are without being given them.
And of course, there are the loyal soldiers in governors mansions across the land issuing their own edicts.
I live in Southeast MO.
In any case, I have to go to the local hospital for treatments every day. The nurse I see at 7:30 in the morning is still working at 6:30 in the evening. They are really in the middle of a staffing crunch. I have no idea if it is vaccine hesitancy or not. But over the last month all I hear from the nurses is that they are being stretched really thin.
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