Some Hospitals Drop COVID Vaccine Mandates to Boost Staffing
December 13, 2021 | Louisiana
Some of the country’s largest hospital systems have dropped COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees after a federal judge temporarily halted President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A U.S. District Court judge in Louisiana stopped the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers on Nov. 30.
As a result, hospital operators such as HCA Healthcare Inc. and Tenet Healthcare Corp., and nonprofits including AdventHealth and the Cleveland Clinic, are dropping the mandates, the Journal reported Monday.
Hospitals have struggled to retain enough nurses, technicians, and janitors amid higher COVID hospitalizations due to the delta variant… (Excerpts from Newsmax)
