Nursing shortages were happening in many places even before Covid, but making a business decision to intentionally fire more staff in those situations, thereby making the shortage even worse, is a real head scratcher for sure. I would think they'd take all the help they can get at this point.
You might want to recheck your numbers. The U.S. has already seen more Covid deaths in 2021 (after the vaccine) than we had the entire time before the vaccine in 2020. Directly from the CDC......... https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm
I used Google to research the impact of the vaccine mandate on Colorado healthcare staffing, and the particular healthcare system referenced in this article (UCHealth) fired 0.5% of its staff due to the mandate. That is an insignificant impact. Moreover the article mentions that, even thought ~50% of unvaccinated workers threatened to quit over the vaccine mandate, only 1-2% actually did. - such conviction. That amount is likewise insignificant.
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I used Google to research the impact of the vaccine mandate on Colorado healthcare staffing, and the particular healthcare system referenced in this article (UCHealth) fired 0.5% of its staff due to the mandate. That is an insignificant impact. Moreover the article mentions that, even thought ~50% of unvaccinated workers threatened to quit over the vaccine mandate, only 1-2% actually did. - such conviction. That amount is likewise insignificant.
UCHealth fires more than 100 employees after vast majority of workforce complies with vaccine mandate
UCHealth fired more than 100 employees — including 54 in metro Denver — who refused to comply with the Colorado health system’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, officials said Monday.
Another recent article on Centra Health indicated it places 56 of its 3,000 employees (1.8%) at one CO facility on administrative leave due to non-compliance, and that it had 99.7% compliance with the mandate system-wide. Likewise, insignificant
Dozens of employees terminated at Parkview Medical Center over vaccine mandate
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) -- More than fifty employees at Parkview Medical Center were let go from the Pueblo hospital on Monday for not abiding by the state's
It seems some have an agenda by trying to place one of the least significant factors for the staffing shortage at the top of their personal list when there is ample evidence that there are other factors including COVID burnout which are much more significant.
Are they being fired for Covid burnout? There's a big difference between quitting and being fired. One is a choice, the other is not. But if these firing shortages are no big deal to the hospitals, then why should we care that they are under staffed? If they can operate fine in this Covid environment with less employees, then it is indeed an "insignificant impact".
Legitimately, they could move to a state without such a mandate and get a job doing the same thing.
We can all pretend you have made constructive, fact-based contributions to this thread while we are at it.
We can all pretend you have made constructive, fact-based contributions to this thread while we are at it.
Flight nurse in California here, we are seeing a decent amount of healthcare workers leave the state or lose their job over mandates. Thank you for recognizing the risks we've been put in over the last 2 years, alot of nurses have been forced to do their job despite inadequate PPE and poor staffing and were told by management to do the job anyways. The mandate was just the last straw for some of us healthcare workers.
Yep. In the health system I work for we even had doc's quit.
True for now, but what is going to get us is the mandate from CMS which states any facility that receives Medicare/Medicaid funding all workers must be vaccinated.
