The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses - a policy the conservative justices deemed an improper imposition on the lives and health of many Americans - while endorsing a separate federal vaccine requirement for healthcare facilities.
The vote was 5-4 to allow the healthcare worker rule, which requires vaccination for about 10.3 million workers at 76,000 healthcare facilities including hospitals and nursing homes that accept money from the Medicare and Medicaid government health insurance programs for elderly, disabled and low-income Americans.
Are you a healthcare worker? Concerned about the new vaccine mandates from CMS?
A federal judge has just blocked the mandate, giving you more time to make a decision. Whether you're for or against vaccines, we can all agree that everyone should have the right to choose. So don't let anyone else decide what's best for you - make up your own mind and find out more about the vaccine mandates in this video.
A Colorado hospital system says it is denying organ transplants to patients who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 “in almost all situations” under a new policy.
UCHealth, which operates hospitals and urgent care facilities throughout the state, confirmed to The Post on Wednesday that organ transplant recipients and living donors must now be vaccinated against COVID-19 before undergoing procedures.
The health system said the driving force behind the policy change was studies showing transplant patients are more likely to die if they contract COVID-19. The mortality rate for transplant patients who get COVID is more than 20 percent, according to UCHealth.
And this hospital is not the first and will not be the last. Let's watch and see how this plays out.
These are some of our fellow Unit Secretaries who are working and going to nursing school simultaneously.
In my opinion, this mandate will only contribute to the nursing shortage that was present before the pandemic.
But some refused and were either fired or suspended without pay. And they may not qualify for unemployment.
And some hospitals that lost employees had to deal with the fallout immediately, halting elective surgeries and closing departments.
There are hospitals all over the country mandating the vaccine for their employees, and some are facing the same fallout, and others are not.
So we will see how all of this plays out.
The CDC encourages hospitals, emergency departments, and emergency care facilities to administer COVID-19 vaccine to unvaccinated patients at discharge, reports AHA News.
The CDC said that cities should allocate vaccines to medical facilities with patients who have higher vulnerabilities.
No.
This video talks about how it would never work because hospital staff doesn’t think like that. We don’t punish people.
We treat people. We help people. That’s what we do.
A New York hospital had to close its Maternity Unit after seven employees resigned over the mandatory vaccination for all healthcare workers.
And to make matters worse, there are seven more employees within that department who still have not indicated whether they will get vaccinated or resign.
And on top of that, an additional 165 employees in the hospital may resign, possibly forcing the hospital to close five more departments.
The dominos are beginning to drop, and we shall see how this plays out.
This is a follow-up to a blog post in May regarding some hospital employees suing their hospital requiring all employees to get the Covid 19 vaccine.
Fast forward to today, and those employees plus others who refused the vaccine have been suspended.
In this video, I'll share my thoughts on this Houston hospital suspending 178 employees with no pay for 2 weeks.