Experts across the country worry that forcing the nation's already-stressed hospitals to implement vaccine mandates may push needed workers to quit
that about 17 million healthcare workers must be fully vaccinated by Jan. 4. And experts across the country worry that forcing the nation's already-stressed 76,000 hospitals, health care clinics and nursing homes to implement vaccine mandates may push critically needed workers to quit as tensions betweenOf particular concern are rural healthcare facilities already grappling with severe staffing shortages and a proportionally larger number of hesitant workers.
, said the research has raised an interesting question: "Do you as a patient have the right to demand an all-vaccinated location? Because nobody wants to go to a restaurant and get infected -- and curing people is not part of their core mission. In health care, it's particularly material to your mission.
That's what happened at Howell's employer, the University of Colorado Health System, Colorado's largest: Although the state set an Oct. 31 vaccination deadline, UC Health mandated its own Oct. 1 deadline, and then fired 119 people who refused to comply with the policy. The 119 people let go by UC Health represent about 0.5% of the system's overall workers, and Howell said the system was able to adjust to their loss relatively easily.
That's because the country's rural health care was already ailing before the pandemic began, and the grinding hours, frantic rescue efforts and ongoing deaths have already prompted workers to quit.
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